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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGerman words for "blabbermouth" -- may come in handy these days.
chatterbox noun
Schwätzer, Quasselstrippe, Plaudertasche, Plappermaul, Klatschbase
loudmouth noun
Großmaul, Maulheld, Brüllaffe
chatterer noun
Schwätzer, Schwätzerin
blatherer noun
Schwätzer, Schwafler, Schwätzerin
windbag noun
Schwätzer, Quatschkopf, Schwafler, Schwätzerin, Phrasendrescher
gossip verb, noun
Klatsch, klatschen, schwatzen, Tratsch, Geschwätz
babbler noun
Schwätzer, Plaudertasche
gasbag noun
Gasflasche, Schwätzer, Schwafler
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German words for "blabbermouth" -- may come in handy these days. (Original Post)
Grasswire2
Sep 2019
OP
Quasselstrippe has a nice ring but Maulheld or Quatschkopf is perhaps more fitting.
yonder
Sep 2019
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The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,869 posts)1. I'll go with a word coming from another country: Quisling.
He was a guy who collaborated with a hostile foreign power to help them take over his country. It rings a bell.
Grasswire2
(13,571 posts)2. And "collaborateur" for the minor players. nt
Laurelin
(533 posts)3. We need Russian...
Not German. 😎
yonder
(9,678 posts)4. Quasselstrippe has a nice ring but Maulheld or Quatschkopf is perhaps more fitting.
As in: "I see the Quatschkopf-in-Chief is wearing his quasselstrippe tie today."
Floyd R. Turbo
(26,633 posts)5. BLABBERMOUTH!
Hekate
(90,829 posts)6. I'll have to add one of those to my already-favorites: Schadenfreude and Backpfeifengesicht...
The Germans do have a way with compound words
Initech
(100,104 posts)7. I find that this applies to anything Chump has been talking about lately: