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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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
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
As the meeting opened, European Council President António Costa—the usually calm, chatty, former Portuguese prime minister who chairs leaders’ summits—turned to Orbán, who sat a few meters away, and chastised him.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026
James wasn’t his usual chatty self on their walk home from school.
From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
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
He jumped to CBS News in 2011, where he was widely credited with turning around the fortunes of “CBS This Morning,” adding hosts Charlie Rose and Gayle King and introducing a chattier, more freewheeling format.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 26, 2022
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
On the television side, fans were chattiest about “Doctor Who” and “The Walking Dead,” which used its convention appearance to confirm that star Andrew Lincoln was leaving the show.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2018
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 Benson, E. F. (Edward Frederic)
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