单词 | over-talk |
释义 | over-talkn. rare. Excessive talking. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > [noun] > talking too much overtalking1649 over-talk1855 over-talkativeness1876 banging on1959 1855 E. Bulwer-Lytton Clytemnestra xii. 74 But women ever err by over-talk. Silence to women, as the beard to men, Brings honour. 1876 C. M. Yonge Womankind xxviii. 247 Perhaps it is only those who had rather hold their tongues who are safe from over-talk. 2003 National Public Radio (transcription of radio programme) (Nexis) 11 Mar. There's not a great deal of overtalk about the dangers of war. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). over-talkv. 1. transitive. To win over or overcome (a person) by talking; to out-talk. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > belief, trust, confidence > act of convincing, conviction > bring to belief, convince [verb (transitive)] > by assertion tella1275 assurea1535 over-talk1605 to talk over1734 to put over1908 to put across1910 the mind > will > motivation > persuasion > persuade (a person) [verb (transitive)] > win over > by talking over-talk1605 to talk over1734 1605 R. F. tr. F. Dedekind Schoole of Slovenrie i. vi. 26 Then what so e're another saith, be sure you mocke and flowt, As scorning to be over-talkt by such a clownish lowt. 1859 Ld. Tennyson Vivien in Idylls of King 144 For Merlin, overtalk'd and overworn, Had yielded, told her all the charm, and slept. 1903 E. M. Forster in Temple Bar Dec. 682 They shook him and tried to overtalk him, but he still went on. 1932 E. Conzemius Ethnogr. Surv. Miskito & Sumu Indians (U.S. Bureau Amer. Ethnol. Bull. No. 106) 105 One tries to overtalk her adversary, picking out the weak points in the personal appearance, habits, and morals of the other. 1999 USA Today (Nexis) 10 Dec. 12 c He overtalked me and tried to beat me with words. 2. intransitive and transitive (reflexive). To talk excessively. Also occasionally transitive: to talk too much about or make too much of (a subject). ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > talk too much [verb (reflexive)] over-talk1635 1635 A. Stafford Femall Glory 119 If in this rude speech of mine I have over-talked my selfe, or under-spoken thee, impute it to my declining and doting yeares. 1861 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Aug. 144/1 The parlous boy had clearly overtalked and overcrowed himself. 1894 Scribner's Mag. May 560/2 Garnet felt he had spoken just these three words too many. ‘Overtalked myself again,’ he said to himself. 1958 W. D. Hassett Off the Rec. with F.D.R. 141 Quezon had overtalked himself by six minutes, so the President had to overrun the thirty minutes allotted to the broadcast. 1978 Ann. Rev. Sociol. 4 157 Leaders of discussion groups who overtalked and received little interaction from other group members were less well liked. 1996 Bloomberg News (Nexis) 20 Sept. U.S. interest rates have been overtalked... A quarter-point increase won't have that much effect. Derivatives ˌoverˈtalker n. a person who talks too much. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > [noun] > talkative person chaterestrea1250 jangler1303 babbler1366 blabbererc1375 jangleressc1386 talkerc1386 clatterer1388 cacklera1400 languager1436 carperc1440 mamblerc1450 praterc1500 jackdaw?1520 chewet1546 flibbertigibbet1549 clatterfart1552 patterer1552 piec1557 long tongue?1562 prattler1567 piet1574 twattler1577 brawler1581 nimble-chops1581 pratepie1582 roita1585 whittera1585 full-mouth1589 interprater1591 chatterer1592 pianet1594 bablatrice1595 parakeet1598 Bow-bell cockney1600 prattle-basket1602 bagpipe1603 worder1606 babliaminy1608 chougha1616 gabbler1624 blatterer1627 magpie1632 prate-apace1636 rattlea1637 clack1640 blateroon1647 overtalker1654 prate-roast1671 prattle-box1671 babelard1678 twattle-basket1688 mouth1699 tongue-pad1699 chatterista1704 rattler1709 morologist1727 chatterbox1774 palaverer1788 gabber1792 whitter-whatter1805 slangwhanger1807 nash-gab1816 pump1823 windbag1827 big mouth1834 gasbag1841 chattermag1844 tattle-monger1848 rattletrap1850 gasser1855 mouth almighty1864 clucker1869 talky-talky1869 gabster1870 loudmouth1870 tonguester1871 palaverista1873 mag1876 jawsmith1887 spieler1894 twitterer1895 yabbler1901 wordster1904 poofter1916 blatherer1920 ear-bender1922 burbler1923 woofer1934 ear-basher1944 motormouth1955 yacker1960 yammerer1978 jay- 1654 C. Blackwood Some Pious Treat. 7 Over-talkers, who spend an hundred words, when ten would serve, if we can speak any thing by two words, it is in vain to use three. 1670 T. Brooks Wks. (1867) VI. 302 There are many over-talkers; and they are such who spend a hundred words when ten will serve the turn. 1975 Sociometry 38 434 In low-consensus groups, an emergent ‘overtalker’ role-type was hypothesized. 1993 Manage (Nexis) Jan. 7 There are social solutions to the problem of bigmouths—ways of communicating that overtalkers need to turn it down. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1855v.1605 |
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