Garrulous

garrulous
    adj 1: full of trivial conversation; "kept from her housework by
           gabby neighbors" [syn: {chatty}, {gabby}, {garrulous},
           {loquacious}, {talkative}, {talky}]
    

Garrulous \Gar"ru*lous\, a. [L. garrulus, fr. garrire to
   chatter, talk; cf. Gr. ? voice, ? to speak, sing. Cf.
   {Call}.]
   1. Talking much, especially about commonplace or trivial
      things; talkative; loquacious.
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            The most garrulous people on earth.   --De Quincey.
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   2. (Zool.) Having a loud, harsh note; noisy; -- said of
      birds; as, the garrulous roller.

   Syn: {Garrulous}, {Talkative}, {Loquacious}.

   Usage: A garrulous person indulges in long, prosy talk, with
          frequent repetitions and lengthened details; talkative
          implies simply a great desire to talk; and loquacious
          a great flow of words at command. A child is
          talkative; a lively woman is loquacious; an old man in
          his dotage is garrulous. -- {Gar"ru*lous*ly}, adv. --
          {Gar"ru*lous*ness}, n.
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34 Moby Thesaurus words for "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