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talkative, a.|ˈtɔːkətɪv|
[f. talk v. + -ative.]
Given to talking; inclined to talk; chatty, loquacious; garrulous, ‘full of prate’ (J.).
1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) VI. 469 Hit is a fowle vice in a kynge to be talkatyve [orig. dicacem fore; Trevisa to iangle moche] in a feste. 1529More Dyaloge iii. Wks. 243/1 The more foole the more talkatife of great doutes and hygh questions of holy Scripture. 1552Huloet, Talcatiue, or full of talkynge and pratlynge, fabularis. 1665Glanvill Def. Van. Dogm. 51 One Author will not reckon him among the slight and talkative Philosophers. 1866Geo. Eliot F. Holt ii, [He] became very talkative over his second bottle of port.
b. Said of personal qualities, etc.; also fig.
14..Craft of Lovers iv. in Chaucer's Wks. (1561) 341 Your peinted eloquence, So gay, so freshe, and eke so talcatife. 1509Barclay Shyp of Folys (1570) 54 Sophistrie nor Logike with their arte talcatife. 1644Bulwer Chirol. 1 The Hand, that busie instrument, is most talkative. 1719Steele Plebian Wks. (1790) 293 Nothing is so talkative as misfortune. 1778F. Burney Evelina (1791) II. xxxvii. 257 So little talkative is the fulness of contentment. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. vii. 47 This..is the most talkative glacier I have ever known.
Hence ˈtalkatively adv., in a talkative way.
1589Warner Alb. Eng. vi. xxx. (1612) 150 For slaunder set on foote, though false, is talkatiuely dome. 1727Bailey vol. II, Talkatively, after a talkative Manner. 1847in Webster; and in mod. Dicts. |