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n. - An obnoxious and foolish and loquacious talker; 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.

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  • This is never the case with my daughter, who is always a real chatterbox.
  • As for her calling me "chatterbox" -- she always calls me that when she's been doing all the talking.
  • I said scarcely a word, and yet I am called a chatterbox, and punished -- before company, too!
  • Harold started keeping his own counsel more than before, and he was never what you might call a chatterbox.
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