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garrulous

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gar=ru=lous

CIDE DICTIONARY

garrulousa. [L. garrulus, fr. garrire to chatter, talk; cf. Gr. voice, to speak, sing. Cf. Call.].
  •  Talking much, especially about commonplace or trivial things; talkative; loquacious.  [1913 Webster]
    "The most garrulous people on earth."  [1913 Webster]
  •  Having a loud, harsh note; noisy; -- said of birds; as, the garrulous roller.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

garrulous, adj.
1 talkative, esp. on trivial matters.
2 loquacious, wordy.

Derivative
garrulity n. garrulously adv. garrulousness n.
Etymology
L garrulus f. garrire chatter

THESAURUS

garrulous

all jaw, blabbing, candid, chatty, communicative, conversational, effusive, expansive, flip, fluent, frank, gabby, gassy, glib, gossipy, gregarious, gushy, long-winded, loose-tongued, loquacious, multiloquent, multiloquious, newsy, overtalkative, prattling, prolix, smooth, sociable, talkative, talky, verbose, voluble, windy, wordy

ROGET THESAURUS

garrulous

Loquacity

N loquacity, loquaciousness, talkativeness, garrulity, multiloquence, much speaking, jaw, gabble, jabber, chatter, prate, prattle, cackle, clack, twaddle, twattle, rattle, caquet, caquetterie, blabber, bavardage, bibble-babble, gibble-gabble, small talk, fluency, flippancy, volubility, flowing, tongue, flow of words, flux de bouche, flux de mots, copia verborum, cacoethes loquendi, furor loquendi, verbosity, gift of the gab, talker, chatterer, chatterbox, babbler, rattle, ranter, sermonizer, proser, driveler, blatherskite, gossip, magpie, jay, parrot, poll, Babel, moulin a paroles, loquacious, talkative, garrulous, linguacious, multiloquous, largiloquent, chattering, chatty, declamatory, open-mouthed, fluent, voluble, glib, flippant, long tongued, long winded, trippingly on the tongue, glibly, off the reel, the tongue running fast, the tongue running loose, the tongue running on wheels, all talk and no cider, foul whisperings are abroad, what a spendthrift is he of his tongue!.


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