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garrulous
/ˈɡɛɹ.ə.ləs/
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What does garrulous mean?
adjective
- Excessively or tiresomely talkative.
- Excessively wordy and rambling.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈɡɛɹ.ə.ləs/
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/ˈɡɛɹ.jə.ləs//ˈɡæɹ.ə.ləs//ˈɡæɹ.jə.ləs/
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The Scotch keeper of it is an old, garrulous, obliging man, and keeps codfish tackle to loan.
Though not a garrulous race, the Tharks are extremely formal, and their ways lend themselves amazingly to dignified and courtly manners.
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Dinah gave a very garrulous version of it, to which Tom added the particulars which he had drawn from her that morning.
In our broiling July weather one can walk out with this genially garrulous Fellow of Oriel and find refreshment instead of fatigue.
“Not I,” said I, and sat grimly watching his face under the yellow paraffine flare, as he drank himself into a garrulous misery.