单词 | garrulous |
释义 | garrulousadj. 1. a. Given to much talking; fond of indulging in talk or chatter; loquacious, talkative. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > [adjective] wordyeOE talewisec1200 i-worded?c1225 babblinga1250 cacklinga1250 chatteringa1250 speakfula1250 word-wooda1250 of many wordsc1350 janglingc1374 tatteringc1380 tongueya1382 ganglinga1398 readya1400 jargaunt1412 talkative1432 open-moutheda1470 clattering1477 trattling?a1513 windy1513 popping1528 smatteringa1529 rattle?1529 communicablea1533 blab1552 gaggling1553 long-tongued?1553 prittle-prattle1556 pattering1558 talking1560 bobling1566 gabbling1566 verbal1572 piet1573 twattling1573 flibber gibber1575 babblative1576 tickle-tongued1577 tattling1581 buzzing1587 long-winded1589 multiloquous1591 discoursive1599 rattling1600 glib1602 flippant1605 talkful1605 nimble-tongued1608 tongue-ripe1610 fliperous1611 garrulous?1611 futile1612 overspeaking1612 feather-tongueda1618 tongue-free1617 long-breatheda1628 well-breathed1635 multiloquious1640 untongue-tied1640 unretentive1650 communicative1651 linguacious1651 glibbed1654 largiloquent1656 multiloquent1656 parlagea1657 loose-clacked1661 nimble-chop1662 twit-twat1665 over-talkativea1667 loquacious1667 loudmouth1668 conversable1673 gash1681 narrative1681 chappy1693 apposite1701 conversative1703 gabbit1710 lubricous1715 gabby?1719 ventose1721 taleful1726 chatty?1741 blethering1759 renable1781 fetch-fire1784 conversational1799 conversant1803 gashing1808 long-lunged1815 talky1815 multi-loquacious1819 prolegomenous1822 talky-talky1831 nimble-mouthed1836 slipper1842 speechful1842 gassy1843 in great force1849 yattering1859 babbly1860 irreticent1864 chattable1867 lubrical1867 chattery1869 loose-mouthed1872 chinny1883 tongue-wagging1885 yappy1909 big-mouthed1914 loose-lipped1919 ear-bashing1945 ear-bending1946 yackety-yacking1953 nattering1959 yacking1959 woofy1960 ?1611 G. Chapman in tr. Homer Iliads iii. Comm. 48 Where they were graue and wise Counsellors, to make them garrulous, as Grasshoppers are stridulous; that application holdeth not in these old men, though some old men are so. 1730 J. Thomson Autumn in Seasons 181 Age..garrulous, recounts The feats of youth. 1788 H. Walpole Reminiscences (1924) vii. 46 Such anecdotes..have not yet emerged into publicity from the porte-feuilles of such garrulous Brantômes as myself. 1820 W. Irving Sketch Bk. II. 176 The house is shown by a garrulous old lady in a frosty red face. 1876 W. Black Madcap Violet xviii. 162 The garrulous ancient was for once holding his tongue. b. transferred. Of birds and inanimate things: Chattering or babbling. [So Latin garrulus.] ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > [adjective] > gurgling gurgling1595 gargling1727 garrulous1854 the world > animals > birds > sound or bird defined by > [adjective] > singing or chirping chatteringa1250 chantinga1529 chippering1593 pipient1607 chirping1611 twittering1628 chittering1821 weeting1852 chirming1854 garrulous1854 the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sound of water > [adjective] > bubbling or gurgling bubbling1589 gurgling1595 giggling1640 guggling1765 garrulous1854 gurgly1894 1854 Ld. Tennyson To Rev. F. D. Maurice v You'll..only hear the magpie gossip Garrulous under a roof of pine. 1858 C. Patmore Espousals x, in Angel in House (ed. 2) II. 280 Birds grew garrulous in the grove. 1876 L. Morris Epic of Hades ii. 99 The stream stayed Its garrulous tongue. 2. Of speech or talk: Characterized by garrulity; full of long rambling statements, wordy. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > [adjective] > copious or lengthy (of speech) facundious1430 clattered1582 voluble1598 garrulous1839 peripatetic1864 wangling1869 yacketing1958 1839 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe IV. i. 112 In a desultory and almost garrulous strain, Bentley pours forth an immense store of novel learning. 1847 B. Disraeli Tancred I. ii. ii. 125 Colonel Brace was indulging in his garrulous comments. 1867 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest I. iv. 166 A..very discursive and garrulous, history of the time. 1873 W. Black Princess of Thule i. 14 The tall and grave-faced keeper might have kept up his garrulous talk for hours. Derivatives ˈgarrulously adv. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > [adverb] roundly1546 babblingly1561 babblishly1574 talkatively1589 full-moutha1605 fluently1613 volubly?1615 gliba1623 glibly1669 gash1721 gashlya1774 rattlingly1824 loquaciously1854 garrulously1859 chatteringly1864 communicatively1868 chattily1892 talkingly1895 gushily1921 yappingly1924 1859 Ld. Tennyson Guinevere in Idylls of King 237 To whom the little novice garrulously, ‘Yea, but I know’ [etc.]. ˈgarrulousness n. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > [noun] overspeecheOE tongue-itch1540 multiloquy1542 long tongue1557 garrulity1581 slipperiness1589 polylogy1602 volubility1602 loquacity1603 lubricity1603 tonguiness1607 overspeakinga1610 talkativeness1609 philology1623 tongue-vice1628 glibness1633 futility1640 linguacity1656 garrulousness1727 linguosity1727 loquaciousness1727 multiloquiousness1727 jaw1748 multiloquence1760 flippancy1789 verbal diarrhoea1808 magpiety1832 big mouth1834 pleniloquence1838 chattiness1876 open-mouthedness1883 gabbiness1887 garrulance1890 irreticence1919 talkiness1934 ear-bashing1945 mee-mawing1974 1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Garrulousness, Talkativeness, Pratingness. 1856 D. M. Mulock John Halifax II. i. 5 How I blessed Mrs. Jessop's unnoticing garrulousness. 1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 12 Jan. 5/1 Garrulousness chastened into terseness. 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