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English
Etymology
From chatter + box.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtʃæ.tə(ɹ)ˌbɒks/
- (UK) /ˈtʃæ.təˌbɒks/
- (US) /ˈtʃæt.əɹ-/, /ˈtʃæ.dəɹˌbɑks/
- Rhymes: -ætə(ɹ)bɒks
- Hyphenation: chat‧ter‧box
Noun
chatterbox (plural chatterboxes)
- (informal) One who chats or talks to excess.
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: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.
- A cootie catcher (children's fortune-telling device).
- (computing) Synonym of chatterbot
- The orchid Epipactis gigantea.
Synonyms
Translations
one who chats or talks to excess
- Arabic: ثَرْثَار (ar) (ṯarṯār)
- Belarusian: лапату́н m (lapatún), лапату́ха f (lapatúxa), лапату́шка f (lapatúška), ласкату́н m (laskatún), ласкату́ха f (laskatúxa), ласкату́шка f (laskatúška)
- Bulgarian: бъбри́ца (bg) m or f (bǎbríca), кречета́ло (bg) n (krečetálo)
- Catalan: xerraire (ca) m or f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 話匣子 / 话匣子 (zh) (huàxiázi), 喋喋不休者 (diédiébùxiū-zhě), 話癆 / 话痨 (zh) (huàláo)
- Czech: kecal (cs)
- Danish: sladretaske c, sludrechatol n
- Dutch: kletskous (nl) m or f
- Esperanto: babilemulo
- Finnish: lörppö (fi), lörpöttelijä (fi), hölösuu (fi)
- French: moulin à paroles (fr) m
- Galician: charlatán m
- German: Dampfplauderer (de) m, Plaudertasche (de) f, Quasselstrippe (de) f, Schwätzer (de) m, Schwätzerin (de) f
- Alemannic German: Chlepfe f
- Greek: πολυλογάς (el) m (polylogás), φαφλατάς (el) m (faflatás)
- Ancient: στώμυλμα n (stṓmulma)
- Hungarian: locsi-fecsi (hu), szélkelep (hu)
- Irish: cabaire m
- Italian: chiacchierone (it) m, ciancione m, linguacciuto (it) m
- Japanese: おしゃべり (ja) (oshaberi)
- Kazakh: сумақай (sumaqai)
- Latin: lingulāca f
- Latvian: pļāpa
- Macedonian: кречетало (krečetalo), брборко (brborko), алапача f (alapača)
- Maori: kohe, komarero, pane kākā, ngutu kotete
- Norman: bailleux d'goule m, caqu'teux m
- Occitan: barjacaire, charraire
- Plautdietsch: Plaupamul m
- Polish: gaduła (pl)
- Portuguese: tagarela (pt) m or f, falador (pt) m, gralha (pt) f, grafonola
- Russian: болту́н (ru) m (boltún), болту́нья (ru) f (boltúnʹja), болту́шка (ru) f (boltúška), лопоту́н (ru) m (lopotún), лопоту́ха (ru) f (lopotúxa), лопоту́нья (ru) f (lopotúnʹja)
- Serbo-Croatian: brbljavac (sh) m, brbljavica (sh) f
- Spanish: loro (es) m, lora f, charlatán (es) m, cotorra (es) f, hablar por los codos (es) (verb), parlanchín (es) m
- Tangut: 𗀁𗢯 (*sa lhjwa¹)
- Turkish: geveze (tr), (Konya) şapır
- Ukrainian: балаку́н (uk) m (balakún), балаку́ха (uk) f (balakúxa), лепету́н m (lepetún), лепету́ха f (lepetúxa)
- Walloon: tchafiåd (wa) m, tchafete (wa) f (man and woman), berdeleu (wa) m, Mareye-tarame (wa) f (man and woman)
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