In a conversational and often literary language, occasionally heard curious words and expressions that eventually become winged. One such common term is "liar". This word each of us must have heard in childhood. It is not out of use, they are still actively used in modern speech.
We used to use the word automatically, without thinking about meaning. We often use it to describe a very talkative person or children "pochemuchek" age. And there is considerable truth to it.
The fact that the word "liar" can be used for both positive and negative characteristics of the interlocutor. Often on the Playground can be heard in the conversation of the mothers: "My baby is so full all the time talking to you". In this case, meant that the child was just very talkative, a negative connotation is missing.
However, in addition to the definition of "talker", this word is also often applied to the person who just talks and talks, but not in putting the words in almost any meaning, provides unreliable information, gives empty promises. Yet such people say "chatterbox" "chatterbox", "Meg", "babbler", is used by many other unflattering synonyms of the word "liar".
There are several versions regarding the etymology of the word "liar". This is and origin from the Tatar word for a rattle or small bell that adorned the dress and a version of that in Russian language this word came from the Latin language meaning "to stutter".
By the Way, in his "Explanatory dictionary of the living great Russian language" by V. I. Dahl defines the word "chatterbox" and "chatterbox" as a small pendant or trinket, for example, to the clock.
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