Meanings
plural motormouths · alternative motor mouth · alternative motor-mouth
- informalOne who talks very quickly or incessantly; a chatty or loquacious person.
He's such a motormouth that I can never get a word in.
1 more example
Blimey, Brand is checking a word with me. This is nothing like the motor-mouth on the telly, laughing in the face of everything.
2014 October 11, Simon Hattenstone, “Russell Brand: ‘I want to address the alienation and despair’”, in The GuardianSynonyms: airbag, babblemouth, babbler, bag of wind, blab, blabberer, blatherer, blabbermouth
present singular third person motormouths · participle present motormouthing · participle past motormouthed · past motormouthed · alternative motor mouth · alternative motor-mouth
- informalintransitiveTo talk very quickly or incessantly.
Synonyms & antonyms
nounOne who talks very quickly or incessantly; a chatty or loquacious person.
Origin
From motor + mouth, from the figurative notion that the mouth moves so much that it seems motorized.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Finnish moottoriturpa, moottorisuu
- moottoriturpaone who talks very quickly or incessantly
- moottorisuuone who talks very quickly or incessantly
French verbomoteur, verbomotrice
- verbomoteurone who talks very quickly or incessantly
- verbomotriceone who talks very quickly or incessantly
German Quasselstrippe, quasseln
- Quasselstrippeone who talks very quickly or incessantly
- quasselnto talk very fast or incessantly
Polish gaduła, nawijać
- gadułaone who talks very quickly or incessantly
- nawijaćto talk very fast or incessantly
Cite this entry
motormouth. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/motormouth
“motormouth.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/motormouth. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “motormouth,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/motormouth.
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