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語源

From chatter +‎ box.

発音

• IPA: /ˈtʃæ.tə(ɹ)ˌbɒks/
  • (英国発音) /ˈtʃæ.təˌbɒks/
  • (米国発音) /ˈtʃæt.əɹ-/, /ˈtʃæ.dəɹˌbɑks/
• 韻: -ætə(ɹ)bɒks
• ハイフネーション: chat‧ter‧box

名詞

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

同意語

• (one who chats to excess): babbler, jabberer, chatterer, yakker; see also Thesaurus:chatterbox