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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
loquacious
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The normally loquacious Simpson had nothing to say.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ If they are sufficiently loquacious, all is well.
▪ It was the overly loquacious Lord Macaulay who called him the Smith of Smiths.
▪ Legend has it that when the engineer cued him for that first broadcast, the otherwise loquacious Williams went blank.
▪ Most remain secret, but a handful have been revealed in memoirs or by loquacious retirees.
▪ Mr Justice Kirkwood also banned the loquacious Kilshaws from discussing the matter with anyone outside the court.
▪ Putnam, persuasively loquacious, was always on the lookout for new adventures and new stories to publish.
▪ The Colonel was getting loquacious, relating his part in the anti-criminal campaign in malai-land two years back.
▪ Violette, dark-haired, vivacious, instantly installed herself as Katherine's loquacious elder sister.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Loquacious

Loquacious \Lo*qua"cious\, a. [L. loquax, -acis, talkative, fr. loqui to speak; cf. Gr. ? to rattle, shriek, shout.]

  1. Given to continual talking; talkative; garrulous.

    Loquacious, brawling, ever in the wrong.
    --Dryden.

  2. Speaking; expressive. [R.]
    --J. Philips.

  3. Apt to blab and disclose secrets.

    Syn: Garrulous; talkative. See Garrulous.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
loquacious

1660s, back-formation from loquacity or else formed from stem of Latin loquax (genitive loquacis) "talkative," from loqui "to speak" (see locution) + -ous. Related: Loquaciously; loquaciousness.

Wiktionary
loquacious

a. talkative or chatty, especially of persons given to excess conversation.

WordNet
loquacious

adj. full of trivial conversation; "kept from her housework by gabby neighbors" [syn: chatty, gabby, garrulous, talkative, talky]

Usage examples of "loquacious".

David and Deborah his manner remained always the same, jestingly ironic, scornfully loquacious, lovingly friendly of a sudden, then for a day, two days, a week utterly silent, while his eyes roved, his ears were acock listening for a step.

Saxon, and reaching out a long sinewy arm he seized the loquacious clerk by the lappet of his gown, and shook him until his long sword clattered again.

Here they had an obvious murderer and a loquacious murderee on their hands, and they had no ideas as to what to do about it all.

Adams was warm, loquacious, more personal and opinionated, often humorous and willing to poke fun at himself.

Johnson was vain, loquacious, and offensively egotistic: Jackson, on the other hand, was proud, reserved, and with such abounding self-respect as excluded egotism.

She came within the few days it took for Makr Avehl to resume the outward appearance of the calm, loquacious, humorous man he had been before, though there were shadows in his eyes and he occasionally hissed in a powerless fury which only Aghrehond understood.

CHAPTER VIII THE PEDLAR OF CRUCIFIXES Issacher, as well as being a cheerful, loquacious fellow and of ready wits, was so exceedingly kind as to support my weight upon his sparer frame.

Throughout the war loquacious generals, who were not employed at the front, harped at home on that alarm, supremely ignorant of and indifferent to the unbroken experience of the world and the teaching of naval history, that military invasion across an uncommanded sea is an utter impossibility.

I was now frequenting the athenaeum reading rooms, where the very same loquacious gentleman whom I had encountered before, the mysterious Poe enthusiast, continued his regular appearances, reading the newspapers and gushing over the inept articles appearing in print on Edgar Poe.

It is our corrupt government of loquacious fat cats in Kinshasa who sell our birthright to the foreigners, and then tax us for our trouble!

Poplars and alders ever quivering played, And nodding cypress formed a fragrant shade, On whose high branches, waving with the storm, The birds of broadest wing their mansions form The chough, the sea-mew, the loquacious crow And scream aloft and skim the deeps below.

The Traveller was quiet, though occasionally he would become bubblingly loquacious.

He was still loquacious, still given to flippancy, to clever self-effacements, to chumminess, but he seemed a more sober person than he had ever been.

For another it was likely that his more loquacious self, in spite of all the discipline he could impose upon it, would, in moments of distraction or near-sleep, certainly torment him with observations on his new poverty -his inability to oblige Diana, to endow a chair of osteology, to do the handsome thing on occasion, to maintain some of the annuities he had promised, to undertake remote voyages in the Surprise when peace should come at last.

Ignoring - or more probably relishing - her shrieks and clutching his cock, the distinguished cleric delivered the punishment in a distant, almost impersonal, manner - so different from the way her loquacious Francis-Etienne always flogged her, extolling her grace with tributes to her curves - 'Yes, my nude beauty, out with those ringed mammaries' and 'Bend those knees, jewel, so that the thong can enter your slit.