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garrulous
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synonyms: loquacious, prolix, renable, aeolistic, vaccinated with a Victrola needle, babblative ???
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Definition:excessively chatty on trivial mattersgratuitous sound file: by unfa, license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ (original trimmed/edited to reduce file size)
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Miss Ophelia anxiously inquired the woman’s story. Dinah gave a very garrulous version of it, to which Tom added the particulars which he had drawn from her that morning.
Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852)
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They were garrulous and gossipy, and their solid, print-clad presences filled the shops with a cozy warmth; a buttress against the cold mist of the morning outdoors.
Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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"One moment," he broke in somewhat more sternly, as the woman's garrulity was getting on his nerves. "As you say, I know the Leridans' house. I have had cause to send children there myself. Children of aristos or of fat bourgeois, whom it was our duty to turn into good citizens.
Baroness Emmuska Orczy. The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel (1919)
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It was the best place to be, thought Wilbur, this warm delicious cellar, with the garrulous geese, the changing seasons, the heat of the sun, the passage of swallows, the nearness of rats, the sameness of sheep, the love of spiders, the smell of manure, and the glory of everything.
E. B. White. Charlotte's Web (1952)
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“I have, good sir,” she answered garrulously. “Just at Christmastime I was deemed worthy to partake of the holy and heavenly sacrament at the shrine of the saint. And now I’m from Kolyazin, master, where a great and wonderful blessing has been revealed.”
Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman . Simon & Schuster
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