A “bad habit.”
Cacoethes loquendi. A passion for making speeches or for talking.
Cacoethes scribendi. The love of rushing into print; a mania for authorship.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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