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Word Meanings - LOQUACITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The habit or practice of talking continually or excessively; inclination to talk too much; talkativeness; garrulity. Too great loquacity and too great taciturnity by fits. Arbuthnot.

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  • TATTLING
    Given to idle talk; apt to tell tales. -- Tat"tling*ly, adv.
  • PRATIQUE
    Primarily, liberty of converse; intercourse; hence, a certificate, given after compliance with quarantine regulations, permitting a ship to land passengers and crew; -- a term used particularly in the south of Europe. 2. Practice; habits. "One
  • BABBLEMENT
    Babble. Hawthorne.
  • PRATER
    One who prates. Shak.
  • LOQUACITY
    The habit or practice of talking continually or excessively; inclination to talk too much; talkativeness; garrulity. Too great loquacity and too great taciturnity by fits. Arbuthnot.
  • GOSSIPRY
    1. Spiritual relationship or affinity; gossiprede; special intimacy. Bale. 2. Idle talk; gossip. Mrs. Browning.
  • BABBLER
    A name given to any one of family of thrushlike birds, having a chattering note. (more info) 1. An idle talker; an irrational prater; a teller of secrets. Great babblers, or talkers, are not fit for trust. L'Estrange. 2. A hound too noisy on
  • PRATTLE
    To talk much and idly; to prate; hence, to talk lightly and artlessly, like a child; to utter child's talk. (more info) Etym:
  • CHATTERATION
    The act or habit of chattering.
  • CHATTER
    Etym: 1. To utter sounds which somewhat resemble language, but are inarticulate and indistinct. The jaw makes answer, as the magpie chatters. Wordsworth. 2. To talk idly, carelessly, or with undue rapidity; to jabber; to prate. To tame a shrew,
  • CACKLING
    The broken noise of a goose or a hen.
  • BABBLE
    It. babbolare; prob. orig., to keep saying ba, imitative of a child 1. To utter words indistinctly or unintelligibly; to utter inarticulate sounds; as a child babbles. 2. To talk incoherently; to utter unmeaning words. 3. To talk much; to chatter;
  • GARRULITY
    Talkativeness; loquacity.
  • VERBOSITY
    The quality or state of being verbose; the use of more words than are necessary; prolixity; wordiness; verbiage. The worst fault, by far, is the extreme diffuseness and verbosity of his style. Jeffrey.
  • CACKLER
    1. A fowl that cackles. 2. One who prattles, or tells tales; a tattler.
  • BABBLERY
    Babble. Sir T. More
  • GOSSIPY
    Full of, or given to, gossip.
  • CHATTERING
    The act or habit of talking idly or rapidly, or of making inarticulate sounds; the sounds so made; noise made by the collision of the teeth; chatter.
  • PRATE
    To talk much and to little purpose; to be loquacious; to speak foolishly; to babble. To prate and talk for life and honor. Shak. And make a fool presume to prate of love. Dryden.
  • CACKLE
    gackeln, gackern; all of imitative origin. Cf. Gagle, Cake to 1. To make a sharp, broken noise or cry, as a hen or goose does. When every goose is cackling. Shak. 2. To laugh with a broken noise, like the cackling of a hen or a goose; to giggle.
  • CONSTUPRATE
    To ravish; to debauch. Burton.
  • SUPRATROCHLEAR
    Situated over or above a trochlea or trochlear surface; -- applied esp. to one of the subdivisions of the trigeminal nerve.
  • STUPRATE
    To ravish; to debauch. Heywood.
  • CONSTUPRATION
    The act of ravishing; violation; defilement. Bp. Hall.
  • TITTLE-TATTLE
    1. Idle, trifling talk; empty prattle. Arbuthnot. 2. An idle, trifling talker; a gossip. Tatler.
  • TITTLE-TATTLING
    The act or habit of parting idly or gossiping.
  • SUPRATEMPORAL
    Situated above the temporal bone or temporal fossa. -- n.

 

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