garrulous

garrulous

English

WOTD – 21 July 2007

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin garrulus (“talkative”), from the verb garriō (“I chatter”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɡæɹ.ʊ.ləs/, /ˈɡæɹ.jʊ.ləs/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɛɹ.ə.ləs/, /ˈɡɛɹ.jə.ləs/, /ˈɡæɹ.ə.ləs/, /ˈɡæɹ.jə.ləs/

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Adjective

garrulous (comparative more garrulous, superlative most garrulous)

1. Excessively or tiresomely talkative.

   Synonyms: chatty, talkative, loquacious, tonguey, voluble; see also Thesaurus:talkative

   • 1891, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray:

     She lingered for a few moments, and was garrulous over some detail of the household.

   • 1984, "A Modern Whitman," by James Atlas. The Atlantic, Dec 1984.

     Crammed with gossip, anecdotes, and confessions . . ., his garrulous, untidy narratives read like a good novel.

2. (of something written or performed) Excessively wordy and rambling.

   Synonyms: bombastic, rambling, wordy; see also Thesaurus:verbose

Derived terms

• garrulously
• garrulousness

Related terms

• garrulity

Translations

excessively or tiresomely talkative

Bulgarian: бъбрив (bg) (bǎbriv), приказлив (bg) (prikazliv) Chinese: Mandarin: 喋喋不休的 German: geschwätzig (de) Greek: φλύαρος (el) m (flýaros) Ancient: λάλος (lálos) Hungarian: bőbeszédű (hu), szószátyár (hu) Irish: béalchlabach, clabach, ráiteach Italian: garrulo (it) Latin: garrulus Maori: tewha, ngutu tewha, tewetewe, pukukōrero, kōtetetete

Mongolian: ам задгай (am zadgaj) Polish: gadatliwy (pl) m Portuguese: gárrulo (pt) m, tagarela (pt) m or f Romanian: limbut (ro), guraliv (ro), gureș (ro), flecar (ro) Russian: болтли́вый (ru) (boltlívyj), говорли́вый (ru) (govorlívyj) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: брбљив Roman: brbljiv (sh) Spanish: gárrulo, lenguón, lenguaz, locuaz (es) Swedish: pratsjuk (sv)

excessively wordy and rambling

Bulgarian: многословен (bg) (mnogosloven) Greek: πολύλογος (el) m (polýlogos), απεραντολόγος (el) m (aperantológos) Irish: foclach

Russian: простра́нный (ru) (prostránnyj) Spanish: gárrulo Tamil: வாயாடி (ta) (vāyāṭi)