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  • 81gabby — [adj] talkative chattering, chatty, effusive, garrulous, glib, gossiping, gushing, jabbering, long winded*, loose lipped*, loquacious, mouthy*, prattling, prolix, talky, verbose, voluble, windy*, wordy; concept 267 Ant. close mouthed, quiet,… …

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  • 82garrulous — [adj] talkative babbling, blabbermouth*, chattering, chatty, effusive, flap jaw*, gabby, glib, gossiping, gushing, longwinded*, loose lipped*, loose tongued*, loquacious, motormouth*, mouthy, prating, prattling, prolix, prosy, running on at the… …

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  • 83ger-2 —     ger 2     English meaning: to scream (in expr. forms)     Deutsche Übersetzung: in Schallworten, especially for “heiser schreien”     Material: A. O.Ind. járatē “ it rushes, sounds, crackles, shouts “, jarü “ the rustling, murmuring “ (or to …

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  • 84prattle — [prat′ l] vi., vt. prattled, prattling [MLowG pratelen, akin to MDu praten, PRATE] 1. PRATE 2. to speak in a childish way; babble n. 1. idle chatter 2. childish babble prattler …

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  • 85chavish —  a chattering or prattling noise of many persons speaking together. Suss …

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  • 86bemused — adjective 1. deeply absorbed in thought as distant and bemused as a professor listening to the prattling of his freshman class lost in thought a preoccupied frown • Syn: ↑deep in thought, ↑lost, ↑preoccupied • …

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  • 87deep in thought — adjective deeply absorbed in thought (Freq. 1) as distant and bemused as a professor listening to the prattling of his freshman class lost in thought a preoccupied frown • Syn: ↑bemused, ↑lost, ↑preoccupied …

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  • 88prattle — v. & n. v.intr. & tr. chatter or say in a childish way. n. 1 childish chatter. 2 inconsequential talk. Derivatives: prattler n. prattling adj. Etymology: MLG pratelen (as PRATE) …

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  • 89preoccupied — adjective 1. deeply absorbed in thought (Freq. 1) as distant and bemused as a professor listening to the prattling of his freshman class lost in thought a preoccupied frown • Syn: ↑bemused, ↑deep in thought, ↑lost …

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  • 90chavish — ˈchāvish noun ( es) Etymology: probably imitative dialect England : chattering, prattling …

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