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chatterbox
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chat·ter·box  (chtr-bks)
n.
An extremely talkative person.

chatterbox [ˈtʃætəˌbɒks]
n
Informal a person who talks constantly, esp about trivial matters
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Noun1.chatterboxchatterbox - orchid 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
Epipactis, genus Epipactis - genus of hardy orchids with leafy-bracted racemes of greenish or purplish irregular flowers
helleborine - any of various orchids of the genus Epipactis
2.chatterbox - an obnoxious and foolish and loquacious talker
speaker, talker, verbaliser, verbalizer, utterer - someone who expresses in language; someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone especially garrulous); "the speaker at commencement"; "an utterer of useful maxims"

chatterbox (Informal)
noun chatterer, gossip, babbler, prattler, natterer, blather, blether (Scot.) My five-year-old daughter's a real little chatterbox.
Translations
chatterbox [ˈtʃætəbɒks] chatterer [ˈtʃætərəʳ] Ncharlatán/ana m/f, parlanchín/ina m/f, platicón/ona m/f (Mex)
chatterbox [ˈtʃætərbɒks] nmoulin m à paroles, babillard(e) m/f
chattering classes [ˌtʃætərɪŋˈklɑːsɪz] npl (pejorative) the chattering classes → les intellos mpl
chatterbox
nQuasselstrippe f (inf)
chatterbox [ˈtʃætəˌbɒks] n (fam) → chiacchierone/a
chatterbox [ˈtʃætəˌbɒks] n (fam) → chiacchierone/a


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