Meaning

4 senses
  1. (informal)One who chats or talks to excess.

    Dampfplauderer, Plaudertasche, Quasselstrippe

    болту́нboltún, болту́ньяboltúnʹja, болту́шкаboltúška

    балаку́нbalakún, балаку́хаbalakúxa, лепету́нlepetún

  2. Synonym of cootie catcher (“children's fortune-telling device”).

  3. Synonym of chatterbot.

  4. The orchid Epipactis gigantea.

More definitions
  • 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
  • an obnoxious and foolish and loquacious talker

Examples

12 sentences
  1. Tom is a chatterbox.

    deTom ist eine Quasselstrippe.

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  2. She is, in brief, a chatterbox.

    deKurz gesagt ist sie eine Quasselstrippe.

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  3. This magpie is a real chatterbox.

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  4. She's a proper chatterbox, whereas her husband is downright uncommunicative.

    deSie ist eine richtige Quasselstrippe, ihr Mann dagegen ist ausgesprochen mundfaul.

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  5. Sven was so verbose that his friends resorted to calling him a chatterbox.

    ruСвэн был настолько многословным, что друзья называли его болтуном.

    deSven war so wortreich, dass seine Freunde sich darauf verlegten, ihn ein Plappermaul zu nennen.

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Translations

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Origin

From chatter + box.

From chatter + box.

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Forms

plural: chatterboxes
Singularchatterbox
Pluralchatterboxes

regular

Synonyms

38 synonyms
one who chats to excess:babbler
Close in meaning

Word family

4 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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