Word for one who talks too much, mostly gibberish

[ADORE ENGLISH]

I came across this web-site looking for a suitable word to describe a person who talks too much, mostly gibberish. Most of the posts didn't really fit and then I came across 'flibberdigibet'. Onomatopoeic too!

 

[probus]

Blabbermouth may be what you are looking for. I think flibbertigibbet is almost exclusively used in reference to a young woman.

 

[MikeNewYork]

I came across this web-site looking for a suitable word to describe a person who talks too much, mostly gibberish. Most of the posts didn't really fit and then I came across 'flibberdigibet'. Onomatopoeic too!

"Bloviator" might work.

 

[Esredux]

I wonder if 'blatherskite' might work provided it is still in use of course?

 

[MikeNewYork]

I wonder if 'blatherskite' might work provided it is still in use of course?

That works well. Also the shortened versions, blatherer or blather would work.

 

[bhaisahab]

There's a rather nice colloquial Irish English tem "gobsh*te".

 

[emsr2d2]

No one suggested ******* yet? ;-)

Maybe they considered it and then thought better of it!

 

[emsr2d2]

Blabbermouth may be what you are looking for. I think flibbertigibbet is almost exclsively used in reference to a young woman.

Blabbermouth, to me, is someone who regularly lets out secrets.

 

[probus]

In my opinon blatherskyte and gobsh*t are both Irish dialect. My Irish grandmother used to say blatherskyte. And from several posts I have come to suspect that our colleague Bhai is a scholar of Irish English.

 

[Sha Liu]

What about Voluble, is this what are you looking for?

 

[emsr2d2]

What about Voluble, is this what are you looking for?

That certainly means talkative but it doesn't mean that most of what the person says is gibberish/rubbish.

 

[bhaisahab]

In my opinon blatherskyte and gobsh*t are both Irish dialect. My Irish grandmother used to say blatherskyte. And from several posts I have come to suspect that our colleague Bhai is a scholar of Irish English.

I am part Irish and I lived in the west of Ireland Gaeltacht (Irish speaking area) in Galway and Mayo for twelve years. During that time I studied Irish Gaelic and mixed with people who spoke a mixture of Gaelic and Irish English. Also my youngest daughter was born there and my middle daughter and three grandchildren live in Co. Mayo.

 

[emsr2d2]

While perusing an online copy of a book about Sussex dialects, I came across this absolutely delightful word for a tell-tale: Blobtongue. I think I might have to try to reintroduce it to my home county.

Source: A Dictionary of Sussex Dialect by Reverend W D Parish (now there was a man whose surname dictated his profession, if ever I saw one!)