as in chatterer
a person who talks constantly
my seat companion was a chatterbox who never once stopped talking
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Girls may, for example, struggle with time management, daydreaming or being a chatterbox and are more likely to be diagnosed with the primarily inattentive type of ADHD over the hyperactive type.
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Daliah Singer, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 July 2025
The heart of the show was Berg’s performance as the redoubtable Molly, a meddler and a chatterbox but also the show’s moral heroine, a problem solver energized by the troubles of others.
—Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 9 June 2025
Perhaps best known in the U.S. for starring in some of Lars von Trier’s most harrowing films, Gainsbourg may not have been the obvious choice to play a nervous chatterbox.
—Judy Berman, Time, 23 Apr. 2025
Some players will be done with making their decisions and speeding through dialogue faster than others and may or may not be more engaged with the town chatterboxes.
—ArsTechnica, 18 Apr. 2025
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Daliah Singer, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 July 2025
The heart of the show was Berg’s performance as the redoubtable Molly, a meddler and a chatterbox but also the show’s moral heroine, a problem solver energized by the troubles of others.
—Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 9 June 2025
Perhaps best known in the U.S. for starring in some of Lars von Trier’s most harrowing films, Gainsbourg may not have been the obvious choice to play a nervous chatterbox.
—Judy Berman, Time, 23 Apr. 2025
Some players will be done with making their decisions and speeding through dialogue faster than others and may or may not be more engaged with the town chatterboxes.
—ArsTechnica, 18 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for chatterbox
magpie
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Even the film’s animal characters, the tiger and magpie, are inspired by Korean folk painting.—
Claire Wang,
NBC news,
12 Oct. 2025
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Anderson is a rare and rangy breed of cinematic maximalist—a satirical quasi-historian and pop-cultural magpie with a gift for weaving disparate influences into a marvellously unruly synthesis.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
26 Sep. 2025
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“Chatterbox.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chatterbox. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.
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