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overchatty

overchatty adjective: excessively chatty.

Adjective

overchatty (comparative more overchatty, superlative most overchatty)

  1. (informal) Excessively chatty.
    • 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.1923 February 11, Mme. X. [pseudonym], “News of Chicago Society: Now That War’s Over, On with Full Dress, Men”, in The Chicago Sunday Tribune, final edition, volume LXXXII, number 6, Chicago, Ill....
    • [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.1950 March 23–24, Claude E[lwood] Shannon, “The Redundancy of English”, in Heinz von Foerster, Margaret Mead, Hans Lukas Teuber, editors, Cybernetics: Circular Causal and Feedback Mechanisms in...

Synonyms of overchatty

Forms of overchatty

comparativemore overchatty
superlativemost overchatty

Origin of overchatty

From over- + chatty.

Questions about overchatty

What does overchatty mean?
Overchatty means excessively chatty.
What part of speech is overchatty?
Overchatty is an adjective.

Words near overchatty in the dictionary

  1. overchargeth
  2. overcharging
  3. overchargings
  4. overcharitable
  5. overcharitably
  6. overchatty
  7. overcheap
  8. overcheaply
  9. overcheapness
  10. overcheck
  11. overchecked

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