chatterbox

Etymology

From chatter +‎ box.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʃæ.tə(ɹ)ˌbɒks/
  • (UK) /ˈtʃæ.təˌbɒks/
  • (US) /ˈtʃæt.əɹ-/, /ˈtʃæ.dəɹˌbɑks/

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• Rhymes: -ætə(ɹ)bɒks
• Hyphenation: chat‧ter‧box

Noun

chatterbox (plural chatterboxes)

1. (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:

     [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.

2. A cootie catcher (children's fortune-telling device).
3. (computing) Synonym of chatterbot
4. The orchid Epipactis gigantea.