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garrulous, a.|ˈgærələs|
[f. L. garrulus talkative (f. garrīre to chatter, prattle) + -ous.]
1. Given to much talking; fond of indulging in talk or chatter; loquacious, talkative.
c1611Chapman Iliad iii. Comm. 48 Where they were graue and wise Counsellors, to make them garrulous, as Grasshoppers are stridulous; that application holdeth not in these old men, though some old men are so. 1730–46Thomson Autumn 1231 Age..garrulous, recounts The feats of youth. 1788H. Walpole Remin. vii. 46 Such anecdotes..have not yet emerged into publicity from the porte-feuilles of such garrulous Brantômes as myself. 1820W. Irving Sketch Bk. II. 176 The house is shown by a garrulous old lady in a frosty red face. 1876Black Madcap V. xviii. 162 The garrulous ancient was for once holding his tongue.
b. transf. Of birds and inanimate things: Chattering or babbling. [So L. garrulus.]
1854Tennyson To F. D. Maurice v, You'll..only hear the magpie gossip Garrulous under a roof of pine. 1854Patmore Angel in Ho. i. ii. x. (1879) 239 Birds grew garrulous in the grove. 1877L. Morris Epic Hades ii. 177 The stream stayed Its garrulous tongue.
2. Of speech or talk: Characterized by garrulity; full of long rambling statements, wordy.
1838–9Hallam Hist. Lit. IV. i. iv. §16. 9 In a desultory and almost garrulous strain, Bentley pours forth an immense store of novel learning. 1847Disraeli Tancred ii. ii. Colonel Brace was indulging in his garrulous comments. 1867Freeman Norm. Conq. (1876) I. iv. 149 A..very discursive and garrulous history of the time. 1873Black Pr. Thule (1874) 6 The tall and grave-faced keeper might have kept up his garrulous talk for hours.
Hence ˈgarrulously adv., ˈgarrulousness.
1727Bailey vol. II, Garrulousness, Talkativeness, Pratingness. 1856Miss Mulock J. Halifax xvi, How I blessed Mrs. Jessop's innocent garrulousness. 1859Tennyson Guinevere 228 To whom the little novice garrulously, ‘Yea, but I know’ [etc.]. 1884Pall Mall G. 12 Jan. 5/1 Garrulousness chastened into terseness. |