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Definition of Chatty
1. Adjective. Full of trivial conversation. "Kept from her housework by gabby neighbors"
Similar to: Voluble
Derivative terms: Gab, Garrulity, Garrulousness, Loquaciousness, Loquacity, Talkativeness, Talk
2. Adjective. Prone to friendly informal communication.
Similar to: Communicative, Communicatory
Derivative terms: Chat, Gossip
Definition of Chatty
1. a. Given to light, familiar talk; talkative.
2. n. A porous earthen pot used in India for cooling water, etc.
Definition of Chatty
1. Adjective. (informal) Of a person, chatting a lot or fond of chatting. ¹
2. Adjective. (informal) Of a text or speech, expressed in a conversational style. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Chatty
1. talkative [adj -TIER, -TIEST] : CHATTILY [adv] - See also: talkative
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chatty
Literary usage of Chatty
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Homes of the New World: Impressions of America by Fredrika Bremer, Mary Botham Howitt (1858)
"Now adieu to this long, chatty epistle, and a hearty à Dieu to my little friend.
LETTER X. Boston, February 1st. MOST hearty thanks, my dear little heart, ..."
2. Charles Lamb: His Friends, His Haunts, and His Books by Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald (1866)
"chatty-Briant (Chateaubriand) is well, I hope. " I think I have no more news;
only give both our loves (' all three,' says Dash) to Mrs. Patmore, ..."
3. Concord: Historic, Literary and Picturesque by George Bradford Bartlett (1885)
"Years ago the chatty, little Frederika Bremer paid a long visit here, a brisk
old lad}-, as restless as her tongue and pen. Here Margaret Fuller and the ..."
4. Life with the Trotters by John Splan (1889)
"Budd Doble writes in a chatty and interesting manner of Goldsmith Maid and
Dexter—How the famous brown gelding was placed in his stable by Hiram ..."
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