motormouthing
Gabbing without pause
Motormouthing is talking rapidly and continuously, often without much regard for whether anyone wants to listen.
The image is of a mouth running like a motor—constant, mechanical, hard to stop.
She was motormouthing about her weekend the entire car ride.
Someone who does this habitually is a motormouth.
Using more language than necessary
- long-windedExcessively wordy, tediously so
- prolixExcessively wordy in speech
- effusiveUnrestrainedly emotional in expression
- volubleInclined to talk freely
garrulous · loquacious · expansive · circumlocutory · pleonastic · overwrought · padded · bloated
Long-winded and unfocused
- meanderingFollowing a winding course
- tangentialBarely connected to main point
- digressiveTending to stray topically
- wanderingTraveling with no fixed course
disjointed · scattered · incoherent · jumping · drifting · sidetracked · aimless · unstructured
Without pause or break
- relentlessContinuing without pause
- unceasingNever coming to rest
- endlessWithout termination or boundary
- continuousWithout pause or gap
constant · perpetual · unstoppable · marathon · breathless · rapid-fire · machine-gun · runaway
Talking fast and incoherently
- natteringAimless, trivial chatter
- prattlingSpeaking trivially at length
- yammeringPersistent, irritating chatter
- chatteringQuick, repetitive sounds
nagging · grating · irritating · tiresome · bothersome · pestering · vexing · exasperating
Persuasively rapid in speech
- smooth-talkingCharmingly persuasive in speech
- silver-tonguedPersuasively articulate speaker
- glibSuperficially articulate
- slickSmooth or craftily adept
convincing · salesmanlike · hustling · schmoozing · pitching · charming · suave · wheeling
Sustained, overwhelming attack
- bombardmentSustained projectile assault
- delugeSevere overflow of water
- floodOverwhelming water overflow
- torrentViolent rushing flow
onslaught · cacophony · overkill · oversharing · inundating · saturating · drowning · smothering
wordy
Using more language than necessary
- long-windedExcessively wordy, tediously so
- prolixExcessively wordy in speech
- effusiveUnrestrainedly emotional in expression
voluble · garrulous · loquacious · expansive · circumlocutory · pleonastic · overwrought · padded · bloated · overexplaining
rambling
Long-winded and unfocused
- meanderingFollowing a winding course
- tangentialBarely connected to main point
- digressiveTending to stray topically
wandering · disjointed · scattered · incoherent · jumping · drifting · sidetracked · aimless · unstructured · stream-of-consciousness
nonstop
Without pause or break
- relentlessContinuing without pause
- unceasingNever coming to rest
- endlessWithout termination or boundary
continuous · constant · perpetual · unstoppable · marathon · breathless · rapid-fire · machine-gun · runaway · uninterrupted
jabbering
Talking fast and incoherently
- natteringAimless, trivial chatter
- prattlingSpeaking trivially at length
- yammeringPersistent, irritating chatter
chattering · nagging · grating · irritating · tiresome · bothersome · pestering · vexing · exasperating · wearisome
fast-talking
Persuasively rapid in speech
- smooth-talkingCharmingly persuasive in speech
- silver-tonguedPersuasively articulate speaker
- glibSuperficially articulate
slick · convincing · salesmanlike · hustling · schmoozing · pitching · charming · suave · wheeling · dealing
barrage
Sustained, overwhelming attack
- bombardmentSustained projectile assault
- delugeSevere overflow of water
- floodOverwhelming water overflow
torrent · onslaught · cacophony · overkill · oversharing · inundating · saturating · drowning · smothering · deafening
- fast talkingreeling off, firing off, patter
motormouthingsilence
Total lack of sound
keeping quiet · saying nothing · taciturnity · clamming up · reticence
motormouthinglistening
Attending to sound
active listening · paying attention · attending · receiving · absorbing
mouth, motor, mouthful, motorcycle, mouthpiece, mouthed, mouthing, motorized, mouthwash