motormouth

See also: motor mouth and motor-mouth

English

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Etymology

motor + mouth

Noun

motormouth (plural motormouths)

  1. (informal) One who talks very fast or incessantly; a chatty or loquacious person.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:chatterbox
    He's such a motormouth that I can never get a word in.
    • 2014 October 11, Simon Hattenstone, “Russell Brand: ‘I want to address the alienation and despair’”, in The Guardian:
      Blimey, Brand is checking a word with me. This is nothing like the motor-mouth on the telly, laughing in the face of everything.

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Verb

motormouth (third-person singular simple present motormouths, present participle motormouthing, simple past and past participle motormouthed)

  1. (intransitive, informal) To talk very fast or incessantly.

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