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chatterboxes

chatterboxes is the plural of chatterbox.

Meaning of chatterbox

Noun

chatterbox (plural chatterboxes)

  1. (informal) 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
  2. Synonym of cootie catcher (“children's fortune-telling device”).
    Synonyms:
    cootie catcher
  3. Synonym of chatterbot.
    Synonyms:
    chatterbot
  4. The orchid Epipactis gigantea.

Questions about chatterboxes

What is chatterboxes the plural of?
Chatterboxes is the plural of chatterbox.

Words near chatterboxes in the dictionary

  1. chatterbag
  2. chatterbags
  3. chatterbot
  4. chatterbots
  5. chatterbox
  6. chatterboxes
  7. chattered
  8. chatterer
  9. chatterers
  10. chatterest
  11. chattereth

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