chatterbox

English

chatterbox (plural chatterboxes)

(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.
A cootie catcher (children's fortune-telling device).

one who chats or talks to excess

Arabic: ثَرْثَار‎ (ar) (ṯarṯār)
Belarusian: please add this translation if you can
Bulgarian: бъбрица (bg) f (bǎbrica), кречетало (bg) n (krečetalo)
Catalan: xerraire (ca) m or f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 話匣子 (zh), 话匣子 (zh) (huàxiázi), 喋喋不休者 (diédiébùxiū-zhě), 話癆 (zh), 话痨 (zh) (huàláo)
Dutch: kletskous (nl) m or f
Esperanto: babilemulo
Finnish: lörppö (fi), lörpöttelijä (fi), hölösuu (fi)
French: moulin à paroles (fr) m
German: Dampfplauderer (de) m, Plaudertasche (de) f, Quasselstrippe (de) f, Schwätzer (de) m, Schwätzerin f
Alemannic German: Chlepfe f
Greek: πολυλογάς (el) m (polylogás)

Hungarian: locsi-fecsi (hu), szélkelep
Irish: cabaire m
Italian: chiacchierone m, ciancione m, linguacciuto (it) m
Japanese: おしゃべり (ja) (oshaberi)
Kazakh: сумақай (swmaqay)
Maori: kohe, komarero, pane kākā, ngutu kotete
Norman: bailleux d'goule m, caqu'teux m
Occitan: barjacaire, charraire
Portuguese: falador (pt) m
Russian: болту́н (ru) m (boltún), болту́шка (ru) f (boltúška)
Spanish: loro (es) m, lora f
Turkish: şapır
Walloon: tchafiåd (wa) m, tchafete (wa) f (man and woman), berdeleu (wa) m, Mareye-tarame (wa) f (man and woman)

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