| Concept: | Loquacity. |
| Category: | 2. Conventional Means; Spoken Language |
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-nouns
loquacity, loquaciousness; talkativeness; garrulity; multiloquence, much speaking. jaw; gabble; jabber, chatter; prate, prattle, cackle, clack; twaddle, twattle, rattle; caquet, caquetterie; blabber, bavardage, bibble-babble, gibble-gabble; small talk (converse)., fluency, flippancy, volubility, flowing, tongue; flow of words; flux de bouche, flux de mots; copia verborum, cacoethes loquendi; furor loquendi; verbosity (diffuseness); gift of the gab (eloquence)., talker; chatterer, chatterbox; babbler; rattle; ranter; sermonizer, proser, driveler; blatherskite [U.S.]; gossip (converse); magpie, jay, parrot, poll, Babel; moulin a paroles..
-verbs
be loquacious; talk glibly, pour forth, patter; prate, palaver, prose, chatter, prattle, clack, jabber, jaw; blather, blatter, blether; rattle, rattle on; twaddle, twattle; babble, gabble; outtalk; talk oneself out of breath, talk oneself hoarse; expatiate (speak at length); gossip (converse); din in the ears (repeat); talk at random, talk nonsense [more]; be hoarse with talking.
-adjectives
loquacious, talkative, garrulous, linguacious, multiloquous; largiloquent; chattering; chatty (sociable); declamatory; open-mouthed., fluent, voluble, glib, flippant; long tongued, long winded (diffuse) [more].
-adverbs
trippingly on the tongue; glibly; off the reel.
-phrases
the tongue running fast, the tongue running loose, the tongue running on wheels; all talk and no cider; "foul whisperings are abroad" [Macbeth]; "what a spendthrift is
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