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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Sokol is a chatty silver fox in a champagne-hued suit, a veteran problem solver in his specific niche of queer nightlife in L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
Mr. Damasio’s prose is informal—self-consciously chatty and unaffected, addressed to his “dear reader” and peppered by plenty of exclamation marks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Mr. Spector sketches with subtlety the relationships that simmer beneath the surface of the chatty, sharp and—it must be admitted—sometimes exhaustingly digressive dialogue.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 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
He was as quiet as Vonetta was chatty.
From "P.S. Be Eleven" by Rita Williams-Garcia
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
She says customers these days are chattier, interested in how she is doing and generally more grateful.
From New York Times ● May 30, 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
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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