babblemouth

noun

Etymology

From babble + mouth.

  1. inherited from mouthen
  2. derived from *ment- — “to chew; jaw, mouth
  3. inherited from *munþaz — “mouth
  4. inherited from *munþ
  5. inherited from mūþ
  6. inherited from mouth
  7. compounded as babblemouth — “babble + mouth

Definitions

  1. One who babbles.

    • It’s a slow-dazzle performance that leaves you wishing the film would pair him up with Adams (a brief dalliance between them is inexplicably dropped) instead of sending his dancer wife, a neurotic babblemouth, back home to him.
    • He was a middle-aged babblemouth who talked computers and fad diets remorselessly, seasoning his monologues with plod monosyllables—Jung, Bach, Proust—managing to give them the intellectual weight of Ping-Pong balls.
    • I WAS WONDERING WHEN YOU WOULD PAUSE FOR BREATH… …SO I MIGHT TRY TO GET A WORD IN EDGEWISE. / I GUESS SOMETIMES I DO TURN INTO A BABBLEMOUTH--SORRY.
  2. One who reveals or gives away information.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for babblemouth. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA