Contents -AUTHOR INDEX -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.

Class IV. Words Relating to the Intellectual Faculties
Division (II) Communication of Ideas
Section III. Means of Communicating Ideas
2. Spoken Language

584. Loquacity.

   NOUN:LOQUACITY, loquaciousness, effusion; talkativeness &c. adj.; garrulity; multiloquence, much speaking.
  GABBLE, gab [colloq.], jaw [low], hot air [slang]; jabber, chatter; prate, prattle, cackle, clack; twaddle, twattle, rattle, caquet [F.], caquetterie [F.], blabber, bavardage [F.], bibble-babble, gibble-gabble; small talk (converse) [See Interlocution]; Babel.
  FLUENCY, flippancy, volubility, flowing tongue; flow, – of words; flux de -bouche, – mots [F.]; copia verborum [L.], cacoëthes loquendi [L.]; furor loquendi [L.]; verbosity (diffuseness) [See Diffuseness]; gift of the gab (eloquence) [See Speech].
  TALKER; chatterer, chatterbox; babbler &c. v.; rattle; “agreeable rattle” [Goldsmith]; ranter; sermonizer, proser, driveler or driveller, blatherskite [colloq., U. S.], blab, jaw-box [slang], gas-bag [slang], wind-bag [slang], hot-air artist [slang]; gossip (converse) [See Interlocution]; magpie, jay, parrot, poll or polly; moulin à paroles [F.].
   VERB:BE LOQUACIOUS &c. adj.; talk glibly, pour forth, patter; prate, palaver, prose, maunder, chatter, blab, gush, prattle, clack, jabber, jaw [low], shoot one’s mouth off [slang]; blather, blatter, blether; rattle, – on; twaddle, twattle; babble, gabble; outtalk; talk oneself -out of breath, – hoarse; talk -, run on- like a mill race; have one’s tongue hanging in the middle and wagging at both ends; talk the hind legs off a mule, talk one deaf and dumb, clack like a hen, go on forever; expatiate (speak at length) [See Diffuseness]; gossip (converse) [See Interlocution]; din in the ears (repeat) [See Repetition]; talk at random, talk nonsense [See Absurdity]; be hoarse with talking.
   ADJECTIVE:LOQUACIOUS, talkative, garrulous, linguacious [obs.], multiloquent or multiloquous; chattering &c. v.; chatty (sociable) [See Sociality]; declamatory [See Speech]; open-mouthed.
  FLUENT, voluble, glib, flippant; long-tongued, long-winded (diffuse) [See Diffuseness].
   ADVERB:GLIBLY &c. adj.; trippingly on the tongue.
   QUOTATIONS:

1. The tongue running -fast, – loose, – on wheels.
2. All talk and no cider.
3. Foul whisperings are abroad.—Macbeth
4. The parrot is forever polishing his beak, however clean it may be.—Pascal
5. What a spendthrift is he of his tongue!—Tempest
6. A loose tongue is just as unfortunate an accompaniment for a nation as for an individual.—Roosevelt
7. His talk was like a charge of horse.—Masefield
8. Another flood of words! A very torrent.—B. Jonson
9. It would talk,—Lord! how it talked!—Beaumont and Fletcher