Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Inclined to chat; friendly and talkative.
- adjective Full of or in the style of light informal talk.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Given to free conversation or chatting; talkative.
- Conversational and entertaining in style; unconventional; easy: as, a chatty letter.
- noun In India, an earthen pot, nearly spherical in shape, used for carrying water and other liquids.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A porous earthen pot used in India for cooling water, etc.
- adjective Given to light, familiar talk; talkative.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective informal Of a person,
chatting a lot or fond of chatting. - adjective informal Of a text or speech, expressed in a
conversational style.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective full of trivial conversation
- adjective prone to friendly informal communication
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Examples
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Parallel is not "chatty" - for example, it doesn't report progress or partial results.
MSDN Blogs 2010
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For instance, Dick Grayson has since come to be known as the chatty one, and when he's talking to Damian I more take it as him explaining why Bruce was okay with it and didn't stop his natural chattiness than why Bruce would encourage it.
Why We Quip 2009
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This is what Lady MacDonald would term a chatty little incident; and my hair begins to rise as I remember what I have been told about those Fans and the indications I have already seen of its being true when on the Upper Ogowe.
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This is what Lady MacDonald would term a chatty little incident; and my hair begins to rise as I remember what I have been told about those Fans and the indications I have already seen of its being true when on the Upper Ogowe.
Travels in West Africa Mary H. Kingsley 1881
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Anyway, if OM is slow to cough up any snippets about old girlfriends, fiancees or even wives, he makes up for it by being very chatty, which is great as I've dated many a man who has gone silent as soon as the waitress has taken the order.
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(Chapter 2) The narrator's letters act neither as "chatty" correspondence nor as a narrative device that substitutes for conventional expository narration but could just as easily be replaced with some other device that gets the story told.
Time's Arrow 2010
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(Chapter 2) The narrator's letters act neither as "chatty" correspondence nor as a narrative device that substitutes for conventional expository narration but could just as easily be replaced with some other device that gets the story told.
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(Chapter 2) The narrator's letters act neither as "chatty" correspondence nor as a narrative device that substitutes for conventional expository narration but could just as easily be replaced with some other device that gets the story told.
July 2010 2010
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A man once rumored not to exist, he can never be the subject of the kind of chatty, conventional biography Pochna has written of Dior.
Couture Clash 2008
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Calling Japan's recent string of short-lived prime ministers as "chatty" but weak, she said: "We will have a real [prime minister] soon."
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