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▪ I. talky, a. colloq.|ˈtɔːkɪ|
[f. talk n. + -y.]
a. Inclined to or abounding in talk; talkative, loquacious.
1815Byron Let. 31 Oct. (1975) IV. 326 Like other [dinner] parties..it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative,..then drunk. 1862Carlyle Fredk. Gt. xii. vii. (1873) IV. 172 The King is somewhat talky. 1884A. A. Putnam Ten Yrs. Police Judge xii. 101 One of the talky attorneys dispels all their hopes.
b. Of a play, book, etc.: wordy, long-winded; containing verbose or tedious dialogue.
1937Partisan Rev. Dec. 54 The producers, apparently still under the spell of the old superstition that a play cannot be ‘talky’, proceeded to excise almost all of the hero's connected conversation. 1967Times 23 Nov. 8/7 The action scenes..do a lot to make up for a slow and talky opening. 1976Publishers Weekly 23 Aug. 60/1 Once past the rather talky and confusing opening, readers will find Price's spy novel a corker.
Hence ˈtalky-ˈtalky a., abounding in (mere) talk; not rising above the level of talk; n., trivial conversation; cf. talkee-talkee; loquacity; similarly, talky-talk, talki-talk, trivial conversation, talk for talking's sake.
1870Punch 22 Oct. 173/1 Perhaps this Lighthearted Gallant doesn't have no end of talky-talkies with all the..six-foot nothings in jack-boots all over the shop. 1883Sat. Rev. 10 Feb. 189/2 These Essays..are very ‘talky-talky’. 1884G. Allen Philistia II. 301 A social leader, of the ordinary commonplace talky-talky sort. 1884‘Mark Twain’ Huck. Finn xxvi. 258 All that kind of humbug talky-talk, just the way people always does at a supper, you know. 1907G. B. Shaw John Bull's Other Island iv. 110 Why cant you say a simple thing simply, Larry, without all that Irish exaggeration and talky-talky? 1928Daily Express 16 July 10/2 A..narrative in which motives and character are revealed in deeds and not in talky-talk. 1937G. M. Young Daylight & Champaign 134, I heartily agree that a large part of the talki-talk about influences and relationships could be with great advantage thrown into a single book. 1938J. Cary Castle Corner 546 The poor child had been upset by all the talky-talky. 1953W. Reich Murder of Christ xii. 111 The admirers feel uncomfortable.., not being free..to engage in small chit-chat and talki-talk. 1965‘W. Haggard’ Hard Sell xvi. 177 Away with this talky-talk, this stylized sparring between..officials.
Add: ˈtalkiness n., wordiness, verbosity.
1934Webster, Talkiness. 1977Washington Post 7 Oct. (Weekend section) 14/2 To relieve the talkiness of the play, much fancy business was devised. Shylock illustrates his philosophy by throwing fruit and furniture about. 1985Amer. Banker 17 Apr. 23/3 If this learned, well-reasoned book has a problem, it lies with its talkiness. Even at only 161 pages of text, much of the material is prolix and even redundant.
▪ II. talky
variant form of talcy a. |