chatterbox
Syllables: chat·ter·box/ˈtʃæ.tə(ɹ)ˌbɒks/
chatterbox noun: one who chats or talks to excess.
Noun
chatterbox (plural chatterboxes)
- One who chats or talks to excess.
- [S]he [Edwina, mother of Tennessee Williams] was indeed Amanda [Wingfield, character in Williams' play The Glass Menagerie] in the flesh: a doughty chatterbox from Ohio who adopted the manner of a Southern belle and eschewed both drink and sex to the greatest extent possible.2014 November 14, Blake Bailey, “'Tennessee Williams,' by John Lahr [print version: Theatrical victory of art over life, International New York Times, 18 November 2014, p. 13]”, in The New York Times
- Synonyms:
- babbler
- Synonym of cootie catcher (“children's fortune-telling device”).
- Synonyms:
- cootie catcher
- Synonym of chatterbot.
- Synonyms:
- chatterbot
- The orchid Epipactis gigantea.
chatterbox meaning in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada
chatterbox in Tamil
- chatterbox; talkative, loquacious person; babbler
- வாயாடி vāyāṭi
chatterbox in Telugu
- a chatterbox, talkative person
- మాటకారి māṭakāri, పేలరి pēlari
- chatterbox, talkative person
- మాటలమారి māṭalamāri
chatterbox in Malayalam
- chatterer, talker, prattler
- കിലുക്കാംപെട്ടി, വായാടി, വായൻ, വായനൻ, വായാളി, വായാളൻ
chatterbox in Kannada
- ಹರಟೆಮಲ್ಲ, ಅತಿಮಾತಿನವನು, ಬಾಯಿಬಡುಕ
More languagesFewer languages
- chatterbox in Gujarati
- ચાપલી cāplī
- chatterbox in Arabic
- ثَرْثَار ṯarṯār
Synonyms of chatterbox
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Forms of chatterbox
| plural | chatterboxes |
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Origin of chatterbox
From chatter + box.
Questions about chatterbox
- What does chatterbox mean?
- Chatterbox means one who chats or talks to excess.
- What is chatterbox in Tamil?
- Chatterbox in Tamil is வாயாடி (vāyāṭi). See Chatterbox meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is chatterbox?
- Chatterbox is a noun.
- How do you pronounce chatterbox?
- Chatterbox is pronounced /ˈtʃæ.tə(ɹ)ˌbɒks/.
- What is the plural of chatterbox?
- The plural of chatterbox is chatterboxes.
Words near chatterbox in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: chatterbox (page history and authors); வாயாடி (Tamil) (page history and authors); పేలరి (Telugu) (page history and authors); chatterbox (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); chatterbox (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ચાપલી (Gujarati) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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