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overchatty en · ADJ

Etymology

From over- + chatty.

Meanings

1. (informal) Excessively chatty.
   • The sunny quiet of Sag Harbor, and Bud’s own talent for tranquillity were a refuge to Father from too many overchatty elderly dames at the Algonk, and he sank into it like a tired child into a feather bed. 1956, Margaret Case Harriman, chapter 3, in Blessed Are the Debonair, New York, N.Y.; Toronto, Ont.: Rinehart & Company, Inc., →LCCN, →OCLC, page 82:
   • 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., →ISSN, →OCLC, part 7, page 5, columns 6–7:
   • [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 Biological and Social Systems: Transactions of the Seventh Conference […], New York, N.Y.: Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation, published 1951, →OCLC, page 148:

Forms

Synonyms

overtalkative · overloquacious