garrulous

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin garrulus (“talkative”), from the verb garriō (“I chatter”).

adj

  1. Excessively or tiresomely talkative.
    She lingered for a few moments, and was garrulous over some detail of the household. 1891, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    Crammed with gossip, anecdotes, and confessions . . ., his garrulous, untidy narratives read like a good novel. 1984 Dec, James Atlas, “A Modern Whitman”, in The Atlantic
  2. (of something written or performed) Excessively wordy and rambling.

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