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hyperverbal en · ADJ

Etymology

From hyper- + verbal.

Meanings

1. Highly verbal; tending to talk very much.
   • If it haunts him, it’s going to haunt his alter ego. Mr. Leary, 51, who is also a producer of the show, isn’t Tommy Gavin, but the resemblance is no accident: both men are Irish-Americans, lapsed Catholics, sometime hockey players and prone to hyperverbal explosions of caustic wit. 2009 April 5, Mark Harris, “Fifth Alarm for That Haunted Fireman”, in New York Times:

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