chatty
Americanadjective
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full of trivial conversation; talkative
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informal and friendly; gossipy
a chatty letter
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Origin of chatty
First recorded in 1755–65; chat ( def. ) + -y 1
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Alumni lounge in camping chairs around dozens of chatty college dads who look like Hank Schrader from Breaking Bad.
From Slate ● Jun. 24, 2026
I’m someone who’s pathologically chatty, and so talking to Greg, who is completely fine with there being pauses in conversation, and is just a confident grown-up, it was incredibly intimidating.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2026
Gibson said: "We had statements from medical staff to say he was chatty, he was walking around, he was using his mobile phone, making phone calls."
From BBC ● May 16, 2026
We might also share the monitoring of loved ones with chatty robot companions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2026
I ask. if you want to change the sufeject, confuse the other person by going off on a wild, chatty detour.
From "Rules" by Cynthia Lord
China has Huawei, Tencent, ByteDance, BYD, DJI and CATL, it argued; America has produced little besides “a search engine that’s a bit chattier than the old ones, running on Taiwan-fab’d chips.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026
The chattier De Rosnay and contemplative Augé built an iconography straight out of a Black Sabbath double-gatefold vinyl, with a scholar’s attention to Steely Dan’s analog signal chains.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2024
And if adults were chattier, so, too, were their children: On average, kids spoke 27 times more per hour for every 100 extra adult vocalizations they heard.
From Science Magazine ● Dec. 19, 2023
Another, Cassidy, is chattier, saying he hopes to reunite with his siblings in Bremerton.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 2, 2023
He had become much chattier since our overnight stay at Wahid’s house.
From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
"As a guy, I feel the need to be more masculine, more strong," says Izaiah - the chattiest of the boys in the session we observe.
From BBC ● May 11, 2024
Think of the chattiest creatures in the animal kingdom and songbirds, dolphins, and—yes—humans probably come to mind.
From Science Magazine ● Oct. 25, 2022
De Angelis is the chattiest in English; Raggi and Torchio were more laid-back, while frontman David was mostly content to quietly smolder on the rooftop lounge couch.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 29, 2021
The return flight contained the chattiest group of passengers I’ve ever had the privilege of joining.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 19, 2020
Only yesterday she had spread the news of his cowardice broadcast; to-day their comradeship was of the chattiest and most genial kind.
From Miss Mapp by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
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