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YACKING
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | talkative |
| Synonyms: | babbling, chattering, chatty, fluent, gabby, garrulous, gossipy, jabbering, long-winded, loose-lipped, motormouth, multiloquent, prolix, verbose, voluble, wordy, yacking |
| Notes: | loquacious means very talkative or full of trivial conversation; articulate means expressing yourself easily or characterized by clear expressive language |
| Antonyms: | quiet, restrained, silent, subdued |
| Main Entry: | shoot the breeze |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | chat, converse |
| Synonyms: | BS, chatter, chew the fat, gab, palaver, prate, prattle*, run off at the mouth, schmooze, shoot the bull, yack, yap |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | prate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | babble |
| Synonyms: | blab, boast, brag, chat, chatter, clash, clatter, drivel, gab, gabble, jabber, prattle, prattle. talk, runon, talk, tongue, utter, yack |
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