Meanings
plural chatterboxes
- informalOne 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 TimesSynonyms: babbler
- Synonym of cootie catcher (“children's fortune-telling device”).
Synonyms: cootie catcher
- The orchid Epipactis gigantea.
Synonyms & antonyms
nounOne who chats or talks to excess.
nounSynonym of cootie catcher (“children's fortune-telling device”).
nounSynonym of chatterbot.
More synonyms by meaning
nounorchid growing along streams or ponds of western North America having leafy stems and 1 greenish-brown and pinkish flower in the axil of each upper leaf
nounan obnoxious and foolish and loquacious talker
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Ancient Greek στώμυλμα
- στώμυλμα (stṓmulma)one who chats or talks to excess
Arabic ثَرْثَار
- ثَرْثَار (ṯarṯār)one who chats or talks to excess
Bulgarian бъбри́ца, кречета́ло
- бъбри́ца (băbríca)one who chats or talks to excess
- кречета́ло (krečetálo)one who chats or talks to excess
- лате́рна (latérna)one who chats or talks to excess
Catalan xerraire
- xerraireone who chats or talks to excess
Chinese Mandarin 話匣子 /话匣子, 喋喋不休者
- 話匣子 /话匣子 (huàxiázi)one who chats or talks to excess
- 喋喋不休者 (diédiébùxiū-zhě)one who chats or talks to excess
- 話癆 /话痨 (huàláo)one who chats or talks to excess
Czech kecal
- kecalone who chats or talks to excess
Danish sladretaske, sludrechatol
- sladretaskeone who chats or talks to excess
- sludrechatolone who chats or talks to excess
Dutch kletskous
- kletskousone who chats or talks to excess
Esperanto babilemulo
- babilemuloone who chats or talks to excess
Finnish lörppö, lörpöttelijä
- lörppöone who chats or talks to excess
- lörpöttelijäone who chats or talks to excess
- hölösuuone who chats or talks to excess
French moulin à paroles
- moulin à parolesone who chats or talks to excess
German Dampfplauderer, Plaudertasche
- Dampfplaudererone who chats or talks to excess
- Plaudertascheone who chats or talks to excess
- Quasselstrippeone who chats or talks to excess
- Schwätzerone who chats or talks to excess
- Schwätzerinone who chats or talks to excess
- Labermaulone who chats or talks to excess
- Labertascheone who chats or talks to excess
Greek πολυλογάς, φαφλατάς
- πολυλογάς (polylogás)one who chats or talks to excess
- φαφλατάς (faflatás)one who chats or talks to excess
Hungarian locsi-fecsi, szélkelep
- locsi-fecsione who chats or talks to excess
- szélkelepone who chats or talks to excess
Irish cabaire
- cabaireone who chats or talks to excess
Italian chiacchierone, ciancione
- chiacchieroneone who chats or talks to excess
- ciancioneone who chats or talks to excess
- linguacciutoone who chats or talks to excess
Japanese おしゃべり
- おしゃべり (oshaberi)one who chats or talks to excess
Latin lingulāca
- lingulācaone who chats or talks to excess
Latvian pļāpa
- pļāpaone who chats or talks to excess
Māori kohe, komarero
- koheone who chats or talks to excess
- komareroone who chats or talks to excess
- pane kākāone who chats or talks to excess
- ngutu koteteone who chats or talks to excess
Polish gaduła
- gadułaone who chats or talks to excess
Portuguese tagarela, falador
- tagarelaone who chats or talks to excess
- faladorone who chats or talks to excess
- gralhaone who chats or talks to excess
- grafonolaone who chats or talks to excess
- falastrãoone who chats or talks to excess
- boquirrotoone who chats or talks to excess
- linguarudoone who chats or talks to excess
Russian болту́н, болту́нья
- болту́н (boltún)one who chats or talks to excess
- болту́нья (boltúnʹja)one who chats or talks to excess
- болту́шка (boltúška)one who chats or talks to excess
- лопоту́н (lopotún)one who chats or talks to excess
- лопоту́ха (lopotúxa)one who chats or talks to excess
- лопоту́нья (lopotúnʹja)one who chats or talks to excess
Spanish loro, lora
- loroone who chats or talks to excess
- loraone who chats or talks to excess
- charlatánone who chats or talks to excess
- cotorraone who chats or talks to excess
- parlanchínone who chats or talks to excess
Turkish geveze, şapır
- gevezeone who chats or talks to excess
- şapırone who chats or talks to excess
Ukrainian балаку́н, балаку́ха
- балаку́н (balakún)one who chats or talks to excess
- балаку́ха (balakúxa)one who chats or talks to excess
- лепету́н (lepetún)one who chats or talks to excess
- лепету́ха (lepetúxa)one who chats or talks to excess
Cite this entry
chatterbox. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/chatterbox
“chatterbox.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/chatterbox. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “chatterbox,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/chatterbox.
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