wordyadj.

Brit.

/ˈwəːdi/, U.S.

/ˈwərdi/

Forms: early Old English werdi (Kentish), Old English wordig, Middle English woordi, Middle English– wordy, 1500s–1600s wordie.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: word n., -y suffix¹.

Etymology: < word n. + -y suffix¹. Compare wordish adj., verbose adj.

1. Full of or abounding in words.

a. Of a person: using an excess of words; = verbose adj. 1. Also: garrulous, talkative.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > [adjective]

wordyeOE

talewisec1200

i-worded?c1225

babblinga1250

cacklinga1250

chatteringa1250

speakfula1250

word-wooda1250

of many wordsc1350

janglingc1374

tatteringc1380

tongueya1382

ganglinga1398

readya1400

jargaunt1412

talkative1432

open-moutheda1470

clattering1477

trattling?a1513

windy1513

popping1528

smatteringa1529

rattle?1529

communicablea1533

blab1552

gaggling1553

long-tongued?1553

prittle-prattle1556

pattering1558

talking1560

bobling1566

gabbling1566

verbal1572

piet1573

twattling1573

flibber gibber1575

babblative1576

tickle-tongued1577

tattling1581

buzzing1587

long-winded1589

multiloquous1591

discoursive1599

rattling1600

glib1602

flippant1605

talkful1605

nimble-tongued1608

tongue-ripe1610

fliperous1611

garrulous?1611

futile1612

overspeaking1612

feather-tongueda1618

tongue-free1617

long-breatheda1628

well-breathed1635

multiloquious1640

untongue-tied1640

unretentive1650

communicative1651

linguacious1651

glibbed1654

largiloquent1656

multiloquent1656

parlagea1657

loose-clacked1661

nimble-chop1662

twit-twat1665

over-talkativea1667

loquacious1667

loudmouth1668

conversable1673

gash1681

narrative1681

chappy1693

apposite1701

conversative1703

gabbit1710

lubricous1715

gabby?1719

ventose1721

taleful1726

chatty?1741

blethering1759

renable1781

fetch-fire1784

conversational1799

conversant1803

gashing1808

long-lunged1815

talky1815

multi-loquacious1819

prolegomenous1822

talky-talky1831

nimble-mouthed1836

slipper1842

speechful1842

gassy1843

in great force1849

yattering1859

babbly1860

irreticent1864

chattable1867

lubrical1867

chattery1869

loose-mouthed1872

chinny1883

tongue-wagging1885

yappy1909

big-mouthed1914

loose-lipped1919

ear-bashing1945

ear-bending1946

yackety-yacking1953

nattering1959

yacking1959

woofy1960

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > [adjective] > verbose > of persons

wordyeOE

windy1513

verbose?1530

verbous1645

verbalizing1647

eOE (Kentish) Glosses to Proverbs of Solomon (Vesp. D.vi) in U. Kalbhen Kentische Glossen (2003) 137 [Homo] uerbosus : werdi.

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) Job xvi. 21 My woordi frendis [a1425 Royal ful of wordis].

?c1475 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 15562) f. 142 Wordy, verbosus; vbi Chaterer.

1636 R. Baker tr. Cato Variegatus 9 Words against wordy men, thou must not vse.

1678 T. Shadwell Hist. Timon ii. 21 Thou art a wordy foolish Scribler, who Writ'st nothing but high-sounding frothy stuff.

1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 448. ⁋1 Phocion, beholding a wordy Orator, while he was making a magnificent Speech to the People.

1818 J. Mackintosh Jrnl. 8 Apr. in R. J. Mackintosh Life (1835) II. v. 354 Brougham made an able and instructive, but heavy speech... He was much too wordy in many parts.

1854 R. S. Surtees Handley Cross (new ed.) xiv. 107 The barber's pretty but rather wordy wife.

1881 R. L. Stevenson Virginibus Puerisque 80 A wordy, prolegomenous babbler.

1917 T. S. Eliot Let. 19 Sept. (1988) I. 196 I am busy reading Emerson. He strikes me as very wordy.

1980 Sunday Times (Johannesburg) 10 Feb. South Africans don't like to get too wordy.

2005 Writer's Mag. Sept. 11/2 Being an unpublished first novelist and a bit too wordy, I found this book particularly helpful.

b. Of speech or writing: consisting of or containing many words; = verbose adj. 2.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > [adjective] > verbose

wordyOE

of many wordsc1350

windya1382

diffused?a1475

word-dearthing1593

verbosious1601

worded1602

wordish1604

diffuse1612

wording1615

diffusive1624

verbose1665

baggy1866

talky1937

waffling1945

OE Aldhelm Glosses (Brussels 1650) in L. Goossens Old Eng. Glosses of MS Brussels, Royal Libr. 1650 (1974) 240 Uerbosa garrulitas : wordig gehlyd.

c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 1 Cor. Prol. 338 Wordy eloquence of philosophie.

1605 Short Dial. Ceremonyes 15 Some..will..distast this your froothy and wordy treatising.

1641 Bp. J. Hall Short Answer Vindic. Smectymnuus 103 In this their wordy, and wearisome Volume.

1713 N. Rowe Jane Shore iii. i To deal in wordy Compliment Is much against the Plainness of my Nature.

1778 R. Lowth Isaiah Prelim. Diss. p. lxviii The Chaldee Paraphrase..often wanders from the Text in a wordy allegorical explanation.

1831 C. Lamb in Englishman's Mag. Sept. 63 Vague, dreamy, wordy, matterless Poetry.

1853 H. Hallam View Europe Middle Ages (ed. 10) I. 297 If the Franks scorned the complex and wordy jurisprudence of Rome.

1908 E. M. Forster Room with View xv. 246 There came from his lips no wordy protestation such as formal lovers use.

1958 Spectator 19 Sept. 369/2 Eugene O'Neill's wordy autobiographical play is an endlessly tragic soap-opera, a sort of Mrs. Dale's Diarrhœa.

2005 Time Out N.Y. 13 Oct. 142/1 Others like his wordy, ultrafey pop albums, recorded..under his own name.

2. Expressed in or consisting of words; verbal. Now chiefly of a conflict, argument, etc., esp. in wordy war.In some instances sense 1b is also implied.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > linguistics > linguistic unit > word > [adjective] > consisting of or expressed in words

verbal1447

wordisha1586

wordy1592

1592 T. Nashe Strange Newes sig. I4^v Leauing them to his wordie discretion to be censured whether they be currant in inkehornisme or no.

1629 W. Sclater Briefe Expos. 2 Thess. (ed. 2) 129 His Intrusions on Gods Prerogatiues royall is rather in facts, then wordy profession.

1685 R. Baxter Paraphr. New Test. James ii. 14 Is not a meer wordy Profession an unprofitable thing to your selves..? Will..saying you believe, profit to Salvation, if you..live not according to the Gospel?

1715 N. Rowe Lady Jane Gray i. i These Clergy Quarrels, These wordy Wars of proud ill-manner'd Schoolmen.

1741 B. Franklin Poor Richard's Almanack 7 He that talks much, must talk in vain; We from the wordy Torrent fly.

1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in Iliad & Odyssey I. ii. 463 All that wordy tempest for a girl.

1814 Ld. Byron Lara i. xxiii. 466 To mar The mirthful meeting with a wordy war.

1860 Ld. Tennyson Sea Dreams 31 When the wordy storm Had ended.

1882 Cent. Mag. Dec. 273/2 On the publication of Worcester's dictionary..a wordy war arose which lasted for years.

1934 L. B. Lyon White Hare 50 After him came two high~brows playing a wordy ping-pong.

1949 D. Sinclair Secret Riders Farm vi. 61 ‘I think,’ said Grant rather quickly before any further wordy fisticuffs could ensue, ‘I think we had all better sleep on it.’

1994 Toronto Sun (Nexis) 18 Nov. 142 Johnson does admit that he started the wordy war.

†3. Skilled in the use of words. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > linguistics > linguistic unit > word > [adjective] > skilled in the use of words

wordy1603

word-mongering1788

1603 J. Davies Microcosmos 208 Be he a Pleader, and a wordie Man.

1609 J. Davies Humours Heau'n on Earth ii. lxviii Some wordy-men, by words, sought worthinesse.

1680 T. Otway Orphan iv. 50 You talk to me in Parables, Chamont, You may have known that I'm no wordy man.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	wordy
释义	wordyadj. Brit. /ˈwəːdi/, U.S. /ˈwərdi/ Forms: early Old English werdi (Kentish), Old English wordig, Middle English woordi, Middle English– wordy, 1500s–1600s wordie. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: word n., -y suffix¹. Etymology: < word n. + -y suffix¹. Compare wordish adj., verbose adj. 1. Full of or abounding in words. a. Of a person: using an excess of words; = verbose adj. 1. Also: garrulous, talkative. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > [adjective] wordyeOE talewisec1200 i-worded?c1225 babblinga1250 cacklinga1250 chatteringa1250 speakfula1250 word-wooda1250 of many wordsc1350 janglingc1374 tatteringc1380 tongueya1382 ganglinga1398 readya1400 jargaunt1412 talkative1432 open-moutheda1470 clattering1477 trattling?a1513 windy1513 popping1528 smatteringa1529 rattle?1529 communicablea1533 blab1552 gaggling1553 long-tongued?1553 prittle-prattle1556 pattering1558 talking1560 bobling1566 gabbling1566 verbal1572 piet1573 twattling1573 flibber gibber1575 babblative1576 tickle-tongued1577 tattling1581 buzzing1587 long-winded1589 multiloquous1591 discoursive1599 rattling1600 glib1602 flippant1605 talkful1605 nimble-tongued1608 tongue-ripe1610 fliperous1611 garrulous?1611 futile1612 overspeaking1612 feather-tongueda1618 tongue-free1617 long-breatheda1628 well-breathed1635 multiloquious1640 untongue-tied1640 unretentive1650 communicative1651 linguacious1651 glibbed1654 largiloquent1656 multiloquent1656 parlagea1657 loose-clacked1661 nimble-chop1662 twit-twat1665 over-talkativea1667 loquacious1667 loudmouth1668 conversable1673 gash1681 narrative1681 chappy1693 apposite1701 conversative1703 gabbit1710 lubricous1715 gabby?1719 ventose1721 taleful1726 chatty?1741 blethering1759 renable1781 fetch-fire1784 conversational1799 conversant1803 gashing1808 long-lunged1815 talky1815 multi-loquacious1819 prolegomenous1822 talky-talky1831 nimble-mouthed1836 slipper1842 speechful1842 gassy1843 in great force1849 yattering1859 babbly1860 irreticent1864 chattable1867 lubrical1867 chattery1869 loose-mouthed1872 chinny1883 tongue-wagging1885 yappy1909 big-mouthed1914 loose-lipped1919 ear-bashing1945 ear-bending1946 yackety-yacking1953 nattering1959 yacking1959 woofy1960 society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > [adjective] > verbose > of persons wordyeOE windy1513 verbose?1530 verbous1645 verbalizing1647 eOE (Kentish) Glosses to Proverbs of Solomon (Vesp. D.vi) in U. Kalbhen Kentische Glossen (2003) 137 [Homo] uerbosus : werdi. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) Job xvi. 21 My woordi frendis [a1425 Royal ful of wordis]. ?c1475 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 15562) f. 142 Wordy, verbosus; vbi Chaterer. 1636 R. Baker tr. Cato Variegatus 9 Words against wordy men, thou must not vse. 1678 T. Shadwell Hist. Timon ii. 21 Thou art a wordy foolish Scribler, who Writ'st nothing but high-sounding frothy stuff. 1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 448. ⁋1 Phocion, beholding a wordy Orator, while he was making a magnificent Speech to the People. 1818 J. Mackintosh Jrnl. 8 Apr. in R. J. Mackintosh Life (1835) II. v. 354 Brougham made an able and instructive, but heavy speech... He was much too wordy in many parts. 1854 R. S. Surtees Handley Cross (new ed.) xiv. 107 The barber's pretty but rather wordy wife. 1881 R. L. Stevenson Virginibus Puerisque 80 A wordy, prolegomenous babbler. 1917 T. S. Eliot Let. 19 Sept. (1988) I. 196 I am busy reading Emerson. He strikes me as very wordy. 1980 Sunday Times (Johannesburg) 10 Feb. South Africans don't like to get too wordy. 2005 Writer's Mag. Sept. 11/2 Being an unpublished first novelist and a bit too wordy, I found this book particularly helpful. b. Of speech or writing: consisting of or containing many words; = verbose adj. 2. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > [adjective] > verbose wordyOE of many wordsc1350 windya1382 diffused?a1475 word-dearthing1593 verbosious1601 worded1602 wordish1604 diffuse1612 wording1615 diffusive1624 verbose1665 baggy1866 talky1937 waffling1945 OE Aldhelm Glosses (Brussels 1650) in L. Goossens Old Eng. Glosses of MS Brussels, Royal Libr. 1650 (1974) 240 Uerbosa garrulitas : wordig gehlyd. c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 1 Cor. Prol. 338 Wordy eloquence of philosophie. 1605 Short Dial. Ceremonyes 15 Some..will..distast this your froothy and wordy treatising. 1641 Bp. J. Hall Short Answer Vindic. Smectymnuus 103 In this their wordy, and wearisome Volume. 1713 N. Rowe Jane Shore iii. i To deal in wordy Compliment Is much against the Plainness of my Nature. 1778 R. Lowth Isaiah Prelim. Diss. p. lxviii The Chaldee Paraphrase..often wanders from the Text in a wordy allegorical explanation. 1831 C. Lamb in Englishman's Mag. Sept. 63 Vague, dreamy, wordy, matterless Poetry. 1853 H. Hallam View Europe Middle Ages (ed. 10) I. 297 If the Franks scorned the complex and wordy jurisprudence of Rome. 1908 E. M. Forster Room with View xv. 246 There came from his lips no wordy protestation such as formal lovers use. 1958 Spectator 19 Sept. 369/2 Eugene O'Neill's wordy autobiographical play is an endlessly tragic soap-opera, a sort of Mrs. Dale's Diarrhœa. 2005 Time Out N.Y. 13 Oct. 142/1 Others like his wordy, ultrafey pop albums, recorded..under his own name. 2. Expressed in or consisting of words; verbal. Now chiefly of a conflict, argument, etc., esp. in wordy war.In some instances sense 1b is also implied. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > linguistic unit > word > [adjective] > consisting of or expressed in words verbal1447 wordisha1586 wordy1592 1592 T. Nashe Strange Newes sig. I4^v Leauing them to his wordie discretion to be censured whether they be currant in inkehornisme or no. 1629 W. Sclater Briefe Expos. 2 Thess. (ed. 2) 129 His Intrusions on Gods Prerogatiues royall is rather in facts, then wordy profession. 1685 R. Baxter Paraphr. New Test. James ii. 14 Is not a meer wordy Profession an unprofitable thing to your selves..? Will..saying you believe, profit to Salvation, if you..live not according to the Gospel? 1715 N. Rowe Lady Jane Gray i. i These Clergy Quarrels, These wordy Wars of proud ill-manner'd Schoolmen. 1741 B. Franklin Poor Richard's Almanack 7 He that talks much, must talk in vain; We from the wordy Torrent fly. 1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in Iliad & Odyssey I. ii. 463 All that wordy tempest for a girl. 1814 Ld. Byron Lara i. xxiii. 466 To mar The mirthful meeting with a wordy war. 1860 Ld. Tennyson Sea Dreams 31 When the wordy storm Had ended. 1882 Cent. Mag. Dec. 273/2 On the publication of Worcester's dictionary..a wordy war arose which lasted for years. 1934 L. B. Lyon White Hare 50 After him came two high~brows playing a wordy ping-pong. 1949 D. Sinclair Secret Riders Farm vi. 61 ‘I think,’ said Grant rather quickly before any further wordy fisticuffs could ensue, ‘I think we had all better sleep on it.’ 1994 Toronto Sun (Nexis) 18 Nov. 142 Johnson does admit that he started the wordy war. †3. Skilled in the use of words. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > linguistic unit > word > [adjective] > skilled in the use of words wordy1603 word-mongering1788 1603 J. Davies Microcosmos 208 Be he a Pleader, and a wordie Man. 1609 J. Davies Humours Heau'n on Earth ii. lxviii Some wordy-men, by words, sought worthinesse. 1680 T. Otway Orphan iv. 50 You talk to me in Parables, Chamont, You may have known that I'm no wordy man. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.eOE
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