Word of the Day: blatteroon

blatteroon (n)

Someone who boasts or babbles senselessly. Someone who won't shut up.

"Yale Kamisar's acute logorrhea, which is apparently not susceptible to any effective treatment, is well known to all. The only uncertainty, it seems, concerns the magnitude of the problem; some but certainly not all would go so far as to label him a blatteroon, a verbomaniac, or even a pisk or a plyoot. But I would protest that his 'gift of gab' is certainly not all bad, for it played a major part in bringing him into the legal profession (where, of course, such a condition, more commonly characterized as cacoethse loquendi, is by no mean unusual)."
--Wayne R. Lafave, "What Is a Kamisar?"

Pisk? Yiddish for motor mouth. Plyoot? Yiddish for bull-shitter. Yiddish is cool.