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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A major marketer has found a way to transform seemingly unremarkable packaged goods into chatty livestreams, Natasha Khan writes for The Wall Street Journal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
"Oscar loves his food and he's very chatty, so when they met him he made a good impression," she said.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
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
Always chatty and in control, she is now the opposite, like someone has pulled her plug.
From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson
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
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
The short sees a much chattier Fett befriend Luke Skywalker after saving him and his droids, only to be revealed as working for Darth Vader.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 29, 2021
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
In his quest for interviews about the hurricane, one of the chattiest of Stuart's informants had been a Mr. James, a resident of Barbados, but whose commercial interests were mainly in Trinidad.
From Plotting in Pirate Seas by C. A. (Charles A.) Federer
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