loquacious

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  1. adjective Very talkative; garrulous.

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  • He is cheery and loquacious, methodical and orderly, and very punctilious in dress. —  Our Friend John Burroughs
  • She was quarrelsome, loquacious, fierce, excessively fond, or downright rude; when she was disgusted with any person, she never failed to reproach them, with all the bitterness of wit she was mistress of, with such malice, and ill-nature, that she was hated, not only by all the world, but by her own children and servants: The extremes of prodigality, and covetousness, of love, and hatred, of dotage, and fondness, met in her. —  The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland
  • An element founding on what they call "enlightened Protestantism," "freedom of thought," and the like, which is apt to become loquacious, and too conscious of itself; terming, on the whole, rather to contempt of the false, than to deep or very effective recognition of the true. —  History of Friedrich II of Prussia
  • This Humphreys was a laborious person, vain-glorious, loquacious, fool-hardy, desirous of all secrets which he knew not, insomuch that he would have given me two hundred pounds to have instructed him in some curiosities he was persuaded I had knowledge of, but, Artis est celare artem, especially to those who live not in the fear of God, or can be masters of their own counsels: he was in person and condition such another as that monster of ingratitude my quondam taylor, —  William Lilly's History of His Life and Times
  • He got, at any rate, as far as Paris, and came back, says Pepys, “an absolute monsieur” — very vain, loquacious, and “mighty great” with the King. —  Purcell
 

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Etymologies (2)

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  1. From Latin loquāx, loquāc-, from loquī, to speak; see tolkw- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = French loquace = Spanish locuaz = Portuguese loquaz = Italian loquace, from Latin loquax (loquac-), talkative, from Latin loqui, speak, = Sanskritlap, speak. From Latin loqui come also ult. English eloquent, grandiloquent, magniloquent, etc., colloquy, obloquy, soliloquy, etc., locution, allocution, elocution, circumlocution, etc.
 

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/ləˈkweɪʃəs/
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