motormouth

noun

Etymology

From motor + mouth, from the figurative notion that the mouth moves so much that it seems motorized.

  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 motormouth — “motor + mouth

Definitions

  1. One who talks very quickly or incessantly

    One who talks very quickly or incessantly; a chatty or loquacious person.

    • He's such a motormouth that I can never get a word in.
    • Blimey, Brand is checking a word with me. This is nothing like the motor-mouth on the telly, laughing in the face of everything.
  2. To talk very quickly or incessantly.

The neighborhood

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