Chatty

Definition: Chatty

Chatty

Adjective

1. Full of trivial conversation; "kept from her housework by gabby neighbors".

2. Prone to friendly informal communication.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "chatty" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)

Synonyms: Chatty

Conversation

Adjective: conversing; Verb: interlocutory; conversational, conversable; discursive, discoursive; chatty; (sociable); colloquial.

Loquacity

Multiloquous; largiloquent; chattering; Verb: chatty; (sociable); declamatory; open-mouthed.

Sociality

Adjective: sociable, companionable, clubbable, conversable, cosy, cosey, chatty, conversational; homiletical.

Crosswords: Chatty

You're like one of those Chatty Cathy dolls except I'm not pulling the string, you are. Blah (Planes, Trains & Automobiles; writing credit: John Hughes.)

I hate chatty food (Xena: Warrior Princess; writing credit: Serge Rodnunsky)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Chatty Cathy and Her Talking Friends: An Unauthorized Guide for Collectors (reference)

• Chatty Cathy Dolls: An Identification and Value Guide (reference)

• Chatty Chipmunks Nutty Day (Giant First-Start Reader) (reference)

• Chatty Parrot (reference)

• The woman and the car: a chatty little handbook for all women who motor or who want to motor (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Chatty Chatty Mouth Version [IMPORT] (reference)

• Shiny Chatty People (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

A chatty quarter of an hour over the teacups, check books and fountain pens put everything in order. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

At every moment the old man seemed to grow more chatty and more fluent

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Ending with "chatty": over-chatty.

Albanian

llafazan (babbler, big mouth, blab, blabber, blatant, chatterbox, chatterer, diffusive, flibbertigibbet, gabber, garrulous, gasbag, gossip, gossipmonger, gossipy, long-tongued, loose-tongued, magpie, mouther, popinjay, prattler, rattle-box, rattler, rattletrap, sieve, spieler, storyteller, talebearer, talkative, tattler, tattletale, telltale, windbag), fjalaman (chatterbox, gusher, talkative, talker). (various references)

Arabic 

‏محدث (cultural), ‏حافل بالهذر, ‏عذب الحديث (well spoken). (various references)

Bulgarian 

словоохотлив (garrulous, lengthy, talkative, voluble), бъбрив (garrulous, gassy, gossipy, long winded, loquacious, mouthy, talkative, voluble). (various references)

Chinese 

话多. (various references)

Czech

hovorný (communicative, conversable, garrulous, talkative). (various references)

Farsi 

پرحرف (Blowhard, Garrulous, Loquacious, Outspoken, Rattletrap, Talkative, Voluble), وراج (Blabber, Blabbermouth, Loquacious, Loudmouthed, Talkative), خوش صحبت . (various references)

Finnish

juttelunhaluinen (talkative). (various references)

French

bavard (chatterbox). (various references)

German

schwatzhaft (Gabby, garrulous, gossiping, gossipy, jawy, prating, talkative), gesprächig (chattily, communicative, garrulous, talkative, talkatively). (various references)

Greek 

γλαφυρός (vivid), πολύλογοσ (loquacious, talkative, verbalizer, verbose, voluble, wordy), φλύαροσ (babbler, blabber, gabbler, garrulous, gushy, jabberer, loquacious, prattler, talker, tattler, tattletale, tittle-tattler, twaddler, verbalist, wordy, yapping), ομιλητικόσ (communicative, conversational, homiletic, sleeky, sociable, talkative, vocal). (various references)

Hungarian

fecsegő (babbler, blab, driveling, drivelling, gassy, gossiping, rambler, talker, tatler), beszédes (affable, communicative, conversational, expansive, loquacious, talkative, talking, voluble, yakky). (various references)

Italian

ciarliero (mouthy), chiacchierino (tatting), lingwacciuto (loquacious, loudmouth), facondo (eloquent, glib), discorsivo (conversational). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

お喋り (blabbermouth, chat, chatterbox, chattering, chitchat, gossip, idle talk, talk, talkative). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おしゃべり (blabbermouth, chat, chatterbox, chattering, chitchat, gossip, idle talk, talk, talkative). (various references)

Manx

tutleragh (gossip, gossipy, loquacious, tattling), cooishagh (artful, causal, cautelous, curiosity, inquisitive, wily), cabbaragh (bragging, chatter, gabbling, gibbering, muttering, prattler, quibble, quibbler). (various references)

Pig Latin

attychay.(various references)

Portuguese

conversador (conversationalist, gabby, talkative, talker), conversadeira (cosy, cozy, sociable, talkative), tagarela (babbler, blab, bletherskite, cackler, chatterbox, clat, gabbler, gabby, garrulous, jay, loquacious, milk-and-water, prater, talkative, tattler, telltale), piolhento (lousy), loquaz (curling, garrulous, glib, loquacious, mouthy, verbose, voluble). (various references)

Romanian

flecar (babbler, blab, cackler, chatterbox, driveller, flibbertigibbet, flippant, garrulous, magpie, rattler, sieve, talkative, talker, talky, telltale, windbag). (various references)

Russian 

болтливый (blithering, gabby, garrulous, gassy, gossipy, hot air, long-tongued, loquacious, mouthy, talkative, talking, windy). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

brbljiv (blithering, gabby, gossipy, long-tongued, loquacious). (various references)

Spanish

hablador (big-mouthed, bletherskate, communicant, demagogue, driveler, driveller, Gabby, gossip, gossipmonger, joker, talkative, talker, tattler). (various references)

Swedish

pratsam (conversational, long-tongued, loquacious, talkative). (various references)

Turkish

sohbet tarzında, konuşma biçiminde, konuşkan (articulate, communicative, conversational, forthcoming, Gabby, garrulous, glib, gushy, loquacious, talkative, talky, vocal, voluble), geveze (babbler, blab, chatterer, chattering, gabbler, Gabby, garrulous, gasbag, gossipy, gushing, gushy, indiscreet, loquacious, mouthy, Prater, prattler, rattlebrain, rattle-pated, talkative, talky, voluble, windbag, windjammer), çenesi düşük (blab, talkative). (various references)

Ukrainian

розмовний (colloquial, conversational, idiomatic, idiomatical, interlocutory, vocal), череп'яний глечик (crock, graybeard, greybeard), говіркий (conversational, glib, talking), вошивий (lousy, nitty, pedicular), невимушений (cavalier, easy, informal, laidback, natural, relaxed, there, unbuttoned, unrestrained, unstudied), неохайний (dowdy, frowzy, frumpish, grubby, negligent, scruffy, slapdash, slattern, slatternly, slobbery, sloven, slovenly, soppy, squalid, unclean, uncleanly, unkempt, untidy), неофіційний (extrajudicial, non-official, officious, offstage, unaccredited, unofficial), брудний (bawdy, beastly, black, dirty, dungy, filthy, foul, greasy, grimy, hoggish, lousy, mangy, messy, miry, mucky, muddy, nasty, obscene, puddly, sludgy, smeary, smudgy, smutty, sordid, sozzly, unclean), балакучий (babbling, conversable, conversational, flippant, garrulous, gossipy, leaky, loquacious, mouthy, narrative, newsy, talkative, voluble, well spoken, windy). (various references)

Vietnamese 

thích tán gẫu, thích nói chuyện phiếm, tởm (foul), nhếch nhác (frowsy, frowzy, slatternly, slovenly). (various references)

Misspellings

"Chatty" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Catti, Cgatt, Cgattc, chafty, chanty, Chasty, Chato, chatte, Chatti, cheaty, chett, Chetta, Chishti, Chott, katti, kattie, Mchattie, Mcwattie, Ochetto, Schatt, schottky. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: catty, yacht.

-2 letters: achy, chat, chay, tach, tact, that.

-3 letters: act, att, cat, cay, hat, hay, tat, thy, yah.

-4 letters: ah, at, ay, ha, ta, ya.

+1 letter: thatchy.

+2 letters: chastity, chattery, chattily, trachyte.

+3 letters: athrocyte, chatoyant, ecthymata, tetrarchy, trachytes, trachytic.

+4 letters: athrocytes, chatoyants, cytopathic, ethicality, hepatocyte, hypostatic, hypotactic, lathyritic, thetically, unchastity.

+5 letters: bathymetric, catholicity, cryptarithm, hepatectomy, hepatocytes, hydrostatic, hyperstatic, hypothecate, sympathetic, thiocyanate, thoracotomy, tracheotomy, trenchantly.