chatty

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃæti/, [ˈt͡ʃæɾi]

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• Rhymes: -æti

Etymology 1

From chat (“informal conversation”) +‎ -y.

Adjective

chatty (comparative chattier, superlative chattiest)

1. (informal) Of a person, chatting a lot or fond of chatting.
2. (informal) Of a text or speech, expressed in a conversational style.
3. (computing) Supplying more information than necessary; verbose.

   Chatty error messages may help attackers to compromise your server.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:talkative

Derived terms

• chattily
• chattiness
• chit-chatty

Translations

chatting a lot or fond of chatting

• Arabic: ثَرْثَار (ar) (ṯarṯār)
• Armenian: լեզվանի (hy) (lezvani)
• Bulgarian: бъбри́в (bg) (bǎbrív), приказли́в (bg) (prikazlív)
• Catalan: xerraire (ca)
• Czech: povídavý, upovídaný (cs)
• Esperanto: parolema
• Finnish: puhelias (fi), suulas (fi)
• French: bavard (fr), loquace (fr)
• German: geschwätzig (de), gesprächig (de)
• Greek:

  Ancient: λάλος (lálos)

• Hungarian: csevegő (hu), beszédes (hu), fecsegő (hu)
• Irish: briosc-chainteach, brioscghlórach, cainteach, canmhar
• Italian: loquace (it)
• Japanese: 口数の多い (くちかずのおおい, kuchikazunoōi)
• Ladino: avlaston
• Latin: loquax (la)
• Latvian: runīgs, valodīgs, mutīgs, pļāpīgs
• Luxembourgish: mauleg
• Maori: kōtetetete
• Russian: болтли́вый (ru) (boltlívyj)
• Spanish: locuaz (es), charlador, conversador (es), parlanchín (es)
• Yakut: лахсыыр (laqsıır)

expressed in a conversational style

• Bulgarian: разгово́рен (bg) (razgovóren)
• Finnish: tuttavallinen (fi)

Etymology 2

From chat (“louse”) +‎ -y.

Adjective

chatty (comparative chattier, superlative chattiest)

1. (British, Australia, New Zealand, dated or dialect) Infested with lice; or, (figuratively) dirty, worn or of poor quality; lousy.
   • 2014, Ian Robson, “Fenham residents campaign against plans to replace wall with wooden fence”, The Chronicle:

     Now there are plans to put up a cheap and chatty wooden fence which will not provide anything like the security the old wall did and it will not have the same character.

Etymology 3

Noun

chatty (plural chatties)

1. Alternative form of chattee (“Indian clay pot”)