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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Etymology
Origin of chatty
First recorded in 1755–65; chat ( def. ) + -y 1
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He was chatty and upbeat, and she told him she would try to find him work, potentially as an assistant at her law firm.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2026
A chatty debrief on Taylor and Travis’ wedding: We have to hand it to Taylor Swift—it’s a real feat that she managed to keep many details of her Friday wedding to Travis Kelce under wraps.
From Slate ● Jul. 6, 2026
The driving force behind that is Padre Pepe, a chatty parish priest in jeans and checked shirt rather than a dog collar.
From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026
Chatbots have evolved from simple assistants into chatty companions, image generators have become dangerously good at making photorealistic content and new advanced models are said to be surfacing decades-old software bugs.
From BBC ● May 18, 2026
She continued threading beads and stitching in silence but just when my mouth was full of salty-sweet goodness, decided to be chatty.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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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