motormouth

noun

mo·​tor·​mouth ˈmō-tər-ˌmau̇th How to pronounce motormouth (audio)
: a person who talks excessively
motormouthed adjective

Examples of motormouth in a Sentence

I had to listen to the motormouth's cell phone conversations for the entire commute.
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Momoa is currently filming his role in Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow, Lobo, a hardcore, motorcycle jacket-sporting motormouth who serves as a galactic bounty hunter with dreadlocks. Nick Romano, EW.com, 3 Apr. 2025 Julia was a relentless motormouth. Bridget Read, Curbed, 18 Dec. 2024 Since graduation, Chen has racked up assignments in Mozart, Beethoven, Donizetti, Verdi, Wagner, and Puccini with opera companies and symphony orchestras across the United States and in Europe, often as the motormouth buffoons and weasels of classic comedies. airmail.news, 7 Dec. 2024 Each of the eight actors does a fine job with that, from Monette Magrath and Peter Christian Hansen as our newlywed hosts to Greg Cuellar as a flamboyant motormouth to Mo Perry’s take on a stuffy defender of conventional class differences. Rob Hubbard, Twin Cities, 21 Mar. 2025 And the resurrection of Carrey as his old plastic, spastic, motormouth self is the key to these movies’ overall effect. Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 20 Dec. 2024 Since graduation, Chen has racked up assignments in Mozart, Beethoven, Donizetti, Verdi, Wagner, and Puccini with opera companies and symphony orchestras across the United States and in Europe, often as the motormouth buffoons and weasels of classic comedies. airmail.news, 7 Dec. 2024 Whereas Ben [Schwartz as Sonic] is about motormouth fun and manic energy, Shadow is the exact opposite. Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 17 Dec. 2024 Junebug was Adams’s springboard, a Sundance sleeper that yielded her first Oscar nomination and led to a string of perky motormouth roles. Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 6 Dec. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1955, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of motormouth was in 1955

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“Motormouth.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/motormouth. Accessed 19 Apr. 2025.

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