Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Talking idly or vainly.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Talking foolishly.

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  • adjective Talking in a vain or foolish way

Etymologies

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From Latin vaniloquens

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Examples

  • Sedulously avoid all polysyllabic profundity, pompous prolixity, psittaceous vacuity, ventriloquial verbosity, and vaniloquent vapidity.

    December 7th, 2005 curufea 2005

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  • This must be when the stars of Def Comedy Jam do their "white guy" impersonations.

    May 20, 2008