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121loquaciousness — loquacity, loquaciousness garrulity, volubility, glibness, talkativeness (see under TALKATIVE) Analogous words: chattering or chatter, chatting or chat, gabbing or gab, prating or prate, jabbering or jabber (see CHAT vb): fluency, articulateness …
122report — n 1 Report, rumor, gossip, hearsay are comparable when they mean common talk or an instance of it that spreads rapidly. Report is the most general and least explicit of these terms; it need not imply an authentic basis for the common talk, but it …
123babble — v 1. gibber, Sl. gibber jabber, jargon; mutter, mumble, splutter, sputter; stammer, stutter. 2. chatter, chipper, prattle, cackle; twaddle, Brit. twattle, blather, drivel; talk nonsense, Inf. talk through one s hat; jabber, prate, bleat, Inf.… …
124babbling — n chatter, chattering, prattle, prattling, small talk, chit chat, chitter chatter; gossip, buzzing, Inf. gab, idle or foolish talk; palaver, Sl. hot air, Sl. gas, Sl. bull; nonsense, gibberish, jargon, gobblede gook; jabbering, jabber,… …
125blather — n 1. drivel, driveling, blether, Inf. blithering; gushing, blabbing, Inf. spouting, excessive talk; babble, babbling, babblement, prate, prating, foolish talk; twaddle, twaddling, Both Brit. twattle, twattling; prattle, prattling, gibber,… …
126bleat — v 1. baa, blat, bray, whinny, cry, call; babble, prate, blather, blab. n 2. baa, whinny, bray, cry, call; babble, prating, blather …
127cackle — v 1. cluck, chuckle, click, clack; crow, quack. 2. chuckle, chortle, giggle; titter, twitter, te hee, snicker, snigger. 3. chatter noisily, prattle, jabber, gibber, Sl. gibber jabber, jargon; babble, prate, tattle, twaddle, Brit. twattle; patter …
128chatter — v 1. jabber, prattle, cackle, gibber, Sl. gibber jabber, jargon; babble, prate, tattle, twaddle, Brit. twattle; patter, gabble, blather, drivel; mutter, mumble, splutter, sputter, stammer; chit chat, chitter chatter, chaffer, bandy words; gossip …
