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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
chatty
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Don Nobles is a chatty, energetic 75-year-old.
▪ Nobles is a chatty, energetic 55-year-old.
▪ The nurses at the hospital were pleasant and chatty, and they made me feel less nervous.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Chefs Kuni and Yasu, both chatty artists, carve edible canvasses that are spectacular feasts for the eyes.
▪ Crew members said they were struck by how laid back and chatty the vacationing Clintons were.
▪ Graham is very shy with most people but he gets quite chatty with Mr Roberts.
▪ Lane eyes the chatty after-work crowd carefully.
▪ On the fourth day he received a long chatty letter from Eleanor.
▪ She is serious and yet chatty.
▪ They are uniformly polite, chatty and cheerful with visitors.
▪ Why do our chatty children often have such difficulty talking about books?
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chatty

Chatty \Chat"ty\, n. [Tamil sh[=a]ti.] A porous earthen pot used in India for cooling water, etc.

Chatty

Chatty \Chat"ty\, a. Given to light, familiar talk; talkative.
--Lady M. W. Montagu. [1913 Webster] ||

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
chatty

"fond of chatting," 1746, from chat + -y (2). Related: Chattily; chattiness.

Wiktionary
chatty

a. 1 (context informal English) Of a person, chatting a lot or fond of chatting. 2 (context informal English) Of a text or speech, expressed in a conversational style. 3 (context WWI slang English) Infested with chats, ie, lice

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

  2. prone to friendly informal communication [syn: gossipy, newsy]

  3. [also: chattiest, chattier]

Wikipedia
Chatty

Chatty may refer to:

  • Kerim Chatty
  • Charmin Chatty
  • Chatty Cathy
  • Chattanooga, Tennessee

Similar names:

  • Chaty, a near-extinct ethnic group of Russia

Usage examples of "chatty".

Her face lit up like a Belisha beacon and she began buzzing around him like a particularly chatty bee.

The chatty trills of newly returned wagtails and chiffchaffs came through the open windows of the imperial residence along with the sunbeams and the sweet scent of the cherry blossoms now in riotous pink bloom all around the building.

She was a chatty soul and at each session related an instalment of her home life while Claribel massaged her and egged her on to do the exercises she was so loath to do.

If Marion had shed any tears overnight, say on account of a little lonesomeness because her friend was speeding away from her southward, there were no traces of them when she met her uncle at the breakfasttable, as bright and chatty as usual, and in as high spirits as one can maintain with the Rodick coffee.

We got into such a chatty state that night, through Ada and my guardian drawing me out to tell them all about Caddy, that I went on prose, prose, prosing for a length of time.

The kitchen was pleasantly warm, the cats were already asleep, back to back, and Betsy, nicely rested, was inclined to be even chattier than usual.

Clearly more cautious than his somewhat chattier colleague, the incognito geneticist rerouted the conversation.

Sitting in chatty circles weaving baskets from thin strips of wood split from saplings or twisting net cords from the fibers in the inner skins of bark stripped from those same saplings, they spoke to each other, their words indirect questions of Aleytys and Shadith, Wakille or Linfyar.

The Students, after a while, begin to whisper together, and soon the place is chattier than a Coffee-House.

Cobb was kind, chatty as well, but not one word did he let drop about the professor other than to say that he was employed by him.

They had never had a real conversation, and for all he knew she would be tongue-tied, or, worse, chatty, and yet he found himself wishing to know more about her.

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National Observer, February 11, 1963 Chatty Letters During a Journey from Aruba to Rio During the past seven months, journalist Hunter S.

When we had finished and had our little dessert before us, embellished by the hands of my dear, who would yield the superintendence of everything prepared for me to no one, Miss Flite was so very chatty and happy that I thought I would lead her to her own history, as she was always pleased to talk about herself.

Not long chatty letters, but he never failed to let me know where he was and how to reach him if the need arose.