Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Excessive talkativeness; loquaciousness.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being garrulous; talkativeness; loquacity.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Talkativeness; loquacity.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state or characteristic of being
garrulous .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the quality of being wordy and talkative
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Examples
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If she had only known which was the real one; she felt at times that his garrulity was a blind -- that he watched her almost satirically whilst he talked.
The Wooden Horse Hugh Walpole 1912
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His garrulity is the garrulity of old age in its last flickering moments.
The Great Taboo Grant Allen 1873
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Few octogenarians had as little of what is termed the garrulity of age as Colonel Burr.
Memoirs of Aaron Burr Davis, Matthew L 1836
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Few octogenarians had as little of what is termed the garrulity of age as Colonel Burr.
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Few octogenarians had as little of what is termed the garrulity of age as Colonel Burr.
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"garrulity," as she called it, to have been unintentional, I might have been flattered.
Kent Knowles: Quahaug Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907
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The garrulity began with the nonfiction books, "Death in the Afternoon" 1932 and "Green Hills of Africa," both written self-indulgently in the first person.
The Slow Crack-Up Allan Massie 2011
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Saxon ceased abruptly, embarrassed by her own garrulity; and yet the impulse was strong to tell this young man all about herself, and it seemed to her that these far memories were a large part of her.
CHAPTER VIII 2010
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It expresses the garrulity of the sea, and is a pleasant break in the monotony of the life.
Chapter 25 2010
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He said he had been processing waste from around the world for twenty years, but his garrulity ended as a crowd gathered.
When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010
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