Garrulous

Definition: Garrulous

Garrulous

Adjective

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

Date "garrulous" was first used: 1611. (references)

Etymology: Garrulous \Gar"ru*lous\, adjective. [Latin expression garrulus, from garrire to chatter, talk; compare Greek for voice, to speak, sing. Compare to Call.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Garrulous

Synonyms: chatty (adj), gabby (adj), loquacious (adj), talkative (adj), talky (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Loquacity	Adjective: loquacious, talkative, garrulous, linguacious,
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Garrulous

English words defined with "garrulous": Inaniloquous ♦ Polyloquent ♦ speaker ♦ talker ♦ utterer ♦ verbaliser, verbalizer. (references)

Specialty definitions using "garrulous": GEOLOGY ♦ overtalkativeness ♦ Polonius. (references)

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	The brave old gardener quietly continued his garrulous rehearsal.
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	Joyce, James	They entered the grounds of the college and were led by the garrulous porter across the quadrangle.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	GEOLOGY, n. The science of the earth's crust -- to which, doubtless, will be added that of its interior whenever a man shall come up garrulous out of a well. The geological formations of the globe already noted are catalogued thus: The Primary, or lower one, consists of rocks, bones or mired mules, gas-pipes, miners' tools, antique statues minus the nose, Spanish doubloons and ancestors. The Secondary is largely made up of red worms and moles. The Tertiary comprises railway tracks, patent pavements, grass, snakes, mouldy boots, beer bottles, tomato cans, intoxicated citizens, garbage, anarchists, snap-dogs and fools.
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Garrulous" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Garrulous" is used about 42 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	42	52,864

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "garrulous"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		llafazan (babbler, big mouth, blab, blabber, blatant, chatterbox, chatterer, chatty, diffusive, flibbertigibbet, gabber, 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), fjalëshumë (loquacious, talkative, verbose, voluble, windy, wordy). (various references)

Arabic		‏مهذار (gabby, loquacious, prattler, prattling), ‏ثرثار (babbler, babbling, big-mouthed, braggart, bragging, chatterbox, gossipy, loquacious, loudmouth, loudmouthed, prattler, talkative, talking). (various references)

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

Chinese		噥 , 伶牙俐齿, 叨 (be in receipt of, grumble). (various references)

Czech		upovídaný (long-tongued, loquacious, talkative, verbose), užvanìný (verbose), hovorný (chatty, communicative, conversable, talkative), řeèný (voluble). (various references)

Farsi		پرحرف (Blowhard, Chatty, Loquacious, Outspoken, Rattletrap, Talkative, Voluble). (various references)

Finnish		suulas (loquacious, talkative), lörppö (babbler, chatterbox), kielevä (glib, voluble). (various references)

French		volubile, loquace, bavard (gabbler). (various references)

German		schwatzhaft (chatty, Gabby, gossiping, gossipy, jawy, prating, talkative), geschwätzig (blithering, chatty, gabby, gossiping, gossipy, loquacious, loquaciously, talkative). (various references)

Greek		φλύαροσ (babbler, blabber, chatty, gabbler, gushy, jabberer, loquacious, prattler, talker, tattler, tattletale, tittle-tattler, twaddler, verbalist, wordy, yapping). (various references)

Hebrew		מפטפט, �"בר� י (loquacious, talkative, windy). (various references)

Hungarian		bõbeszédû (long winded, loquacious, talkative, tattler, verbose, voluble, wordy), bőbeszédű (glib, long-winded, redundant, talkative, voluble, wordy). (various references)

Indonesian		celopar (finicky, fussy), bacar (talkative). (various references)

Italian		garrulo, loquace (chattily, conversational, eloquent, Gabby, loquacious, talkative, voluble). (various references)

Korean		다변한. (various references)

Manx		glib (fluent, glib, pert), focklagh (declaratory, diffuse, expansive, loquacious, oral, verbose, voluble, wordy), cabberagh (prattle, prattler). (various references)

Norwegian		snakkesalig. (various references)

Pig Latin		arrulousgay.(various references)

Portuguese		tagarela (babbler, blab, bletherskite, cackler, chatterbox, chatty, clat, gabbler, Gabby, jays, loquacious, milk and water, praties, talkative, tattler, telltale), loquaz (chatty, curling, glib, loquacious, mouthy, verbose, voluble), loquacidade (gab, gabble, garrulity, jabber, loquacity, Lord, overtalkativeness), falante (speaker, speaking, talking). (various references)

Romanian		gureş (talkative), guraliv (flippant, long-tongued, mouthy, talkative, voluble), vorbãreţ (chatterbox, conversational, loquacious, mouthy, talker, telltale), limbut (chatterbox, Gabby, long-tongued, talkative, voluble), flecar (babbler, blab, cackler, chatterbox, chatty, driveller, flibbertigibbet, flippant, magpie, rattler, sieve, talkative, talker, talky, telltale, windbag). (various references)

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

Scottish		gobach (talkative), bruidhneach. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		govorljiv (communicable, copious, long winded, loquacious, talkative, voluble, wordy). (various references)

Spanish		gárrulo. (various references)

Swedish		pratsjuk (Gabby). (various references)

Turkish		geveze (babbler, blab, chatterer, chattering, chatty, gabbler, Gabby, gasbag, gossipy, gushing, gushy, indiscreet, loquacious, mouthy, Prater, prattler, rattlebrain, rattle-pated, talkative, talky, voluble, windbag, windjammer), konuşkan (articulate, chatty, communicative, conversational, forthcoming, Gabby, glib, gushy, loquacious, talkative, talky, vocal, voluble), boşboğaz (babbler, blab, chatterbox, communicative, gabbler, Gabby, indiscreet, platitudinarian, raunchy, sieve, tattler), çenebaz (chatterbox, prattler, roisterer, talkative, voluble). (various references)

Ukranian		балакучий (babbling, chatty, conversable, conversational, flippant, gossipy, leaky, loquacious, mouthy, narrative, newsy, talkative, voluble, well spoken, windy), дзюркотливий (babbling, loquacious, murmurous). (various references)

Vietnamese		nói nhiều (long-tongued, loquacious), ba hoa (blah, long-tongued, loose-tongued). (various references)

Welsh		tafotrydd (flippant), siaradus (talkative). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	garrula, garrulus, loquax, loquax, loquacis. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "garrulous": garrulously, garrulousness, garrulousnesses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Garrulous" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: arulius, Aurulius, garolous, garoulous, garralous, garrelous, garrilous, garrlous, garrollous, garrolous, garroulous, garruloous, garrulouls, garruluos, garrulus, garulous, gerrulous. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "garrulous" (pronounced ge"rulus)
6	-e" r u l u s	Carolus, perilous, querulous.
4	-u l u s	acropolis, anomalous, calculus, fabulous, frivolous, incredulous, libelous, marvelous, megalopolis, merciless, meticulous, metropolis, miraculous, nautilus, nebulous, necropolis, Oxalis, pendulous, populace, populous, ridiculous, scandalous, scrupulous, scurrilous, stimulus, syphilis, tantalus, tremulous, unscrupulous.
3	-l u s	accomplice, ageless, aimless, airless, Amaryllis, atlas, bacillus, backless, balas, baseless, blameless, bloodless, bolus, boneless, bottomless, boundless, brainless, breathless, callous, callus, careless, cashless, ceaseless, childless, classless, cloudless, clueless, Colas, colorless, cordless, countless, cutlass, defenseless, digitalis, directionless, doubtless, driverless, ductless, earless, effortless, endless, expressionless, eyeless, faceless, fatherless, fearless, featherless, featureless, feckless, fellas, fenceless, flawless, flightless, frictionless, fruitless, Gallus, gladiolus, godless, graceless, groundless, guileless, guiltless, hairless, hapless, harmless, headless, heartless, helpless, homeless, hopeless, hornless, humorless, irregardless, issueless, jealous, jobless, keyless, lactobacillus, landless, lawless, leaderless, leafless, legless, lifeless, limbless, limitless, listless, loveless, luckless, malice, meaningless, meatless, mindless, motherless, motionless, nameless, necklace, needless, odorless, overzealous, painless, palace, paperless, peerless, penniless, pilotless, pitiless, pointless, polis, powerless, priceless, prothallus, purposeless, reckless, regardless, relentless, remorseless, restless, riskless, rootless, rudderless, ruthless, scoreless, seamless, selfless, senseless, sexless, shameless, shapeless, shiftless, skinless, sleepless, sleeveless, smokeless, solace, soulless, speechless, spineless, spotless, stainless, stateless, stylus, surplus, tasteless, thankless, thoughtless, ticketless, tieless, timeless, tireless, toothless, topless, treeless, trellis, useless, valueless, victimless, voiceless, warrantless, weightless, windlass, windowless, wireless, witless, wordless, worthless, zealous, zipless.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-g-l-o-r-r-s-u-u"
	-2 letters: rugolas.
	-3 letters: algors, argols, augurs, aurous, gorals, largos, rugola, rugosa, rugous.
	-4 letters: algor, argol, argus, augur, gaols, gaurs, goals, goral, guars, gular, gurus, largo, lours, luaus, orals, roars, rugal, rural, solar, sugar, sural, surra, usual.
	-5 letters: also, gals, gaol, gars, gaur, goal, goas, guar, guls, guru, lags, lars, logs, lour, luau, lugs, oars, oral, orra, osar, ours, rags, roar, ruga, rugs, sago, saul, slag, slog, slug, slur, soar, sola, sora, soul, sour, sulu, sura, ulus, ursa, urus.
	Words containing the letters "a-g-l-o-r-r-s-u-u"
	+2 letters: burglarious, garrulously.
	+4 letters: burglariously, garrulousness, neurosurgical.
	+5 letters: ultraglamorous.
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