overloquacious
English
Etymology
From over- + loquacious.
Adjective
overloquacious (comparative more overloquacious, superlative most overloquacious)
- Excessively loquacious.
- Synonyms: (informal) overchatty, overtalkative
- 1911, “Business and Commerce”, in Henry W[oldmar] Ruoff, editor, The Volume Library: A Concise, Graded Repository of Practical and Cultural Knowledge Designed for Both Instruction and Reference, Chicago, Ill.: The W. E. Richardson Company, →OCLC, page 428, column 1:
- A salesman should be straightforward and not overloquacious, remembering that it is not the quantity but the quality of talk which counts.
- 1913 September 27, Edwin Lefèvre, “Without End”, in The Saturday Evening Post, volume 186, number 13, Philadelphia, Pa.: Curtis Publishing Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 13, column 3:
- He said it with such conviction that I suddenly felt very friendly toward him. Overloquacious—but a heart of pure gold!
- 1978, James P[reston] O’Donnell, “Prologue”, in The Bunker: The History of the Reich Chancellery Group, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, page 19:
- To maintain credibility, I simply eliminated four or five overloquacious witnesses I knew or believed to be lying, or “spinning,” as they say in German.