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Chatterbox

noun
1.
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.  Synonyms: Epipactis gigantea, giant helleborine, stream orchid.
2.
An obnoxious and foolish and loquacious talker.  Synonyms: babbler, chatterer, magpie, prater, spouter.






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"Chatterbox" Quotes from Famous Books



... my watch!" she cried gaily. "Which of us has been the gossip, the chatterbox, eh, Artemise! Eh! bien, I wish you a very sincere and a very long good-bye." Some emotion crept into her throat, into her voice. The child was her brother's. This poor girl, the mother, bore her own name, and she could ...
— Ringfield - A Novel • Susie Frances Harrison

... herself back with an effort. "I like to listen," she said, "but I am usually such a chatterbox that ...
— Contrary Mary • Temple Bailey

... so earnest to whitewash me, Cornelia! The whole scheme was such a plucky little one and Baxters, from the dawn of creation, have admired pluck. The lively, chatterbox-one was 'Evangeline' and the quiet one who should have been an Evangeline was what the other one ought to have been,—a 'Stefana,' suggestive of flashing, dark eyes under a lace mantilla, with ways to match the eyes. So does fate play her little jokes. The baby—but what ...
— Miss Theodosia's Heartstrings • Annie Hamilton Donnell

... ways. She was older for her age than Nesta, perhaps because she had no companions of her own standing to keep her back. Eustace and she always got on well together, and to-night he was grateful to her for being such a chatterbox. The story of Aunt Dorothy's lunatics made Mrs. Cochrane and Trix both laugh till the tears ran down their cheeks. It was harder to tell them about the evening before, for that was ...
— Queensland Cousins • Eleanor Luisa Haverfield



Words linked to "Chatterbox" :   genus Epipactis, verbalizer, Epipactis, talker, utterer, speaker, verbaliser, helleborine



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