Meaning of overchatty | Babel Free

Definitions

Excessively chatty.

informal

Examples

“To foreigners we often seem guileless and overchatty, an impression which is dispersed when they find⟳ that much of our friendliness is just the ebullition of the moment and does not carry⟳ with it any permanence of devotion.”

“[Leonard Jimmie] Savage: Does it suffice to maintain⟳ some inanimate acoustical contact⟳ or is actual talking preferable? [Joseph Carl Robnett] Licklider: I have⟳ heard that the pilots don’t like⟳ the operators to be overchatty. They would just as soon not have⟳ that.”

“The sunny quiet of Sag Harbor, and Bud’s own⟳ talent for tranquillity were a refuge to Father from too many overchatty elderly dames at the Algonk, and he sank into it like⟳ a tired child into a feather bed.”

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