Word of the Day:
chatterbox
What It Means
One who chats or talks to excess.
Synonym of cootie catcher (“children's fortune-telling device”).
Synonym of chatterbot.
Chatterbox in Context
“[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.”
Did You Know?
From chatter + box.
Source and license
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