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talkingverbpresent participle of talk to give a formal often extended talk on a subjectthe fire chief often talks at school assemblies about fire safety declaiming, descanting, discoursing, expatiating, haranguing, lecturing, orating, speaking reciting, soliloquizingdisserting, expounding, pontificating, sermonizingmouthing, spoutingfilibustering holding forth, taking the floor to engage in casual or rambling conversationtalked with our neighbor as we unloaded the groceries from the car babbling, blabbing, cackling, chaffering(British), chattering, chatting, chinning(slang), conversing, gabbing, gabbling, gassing, jabbering, jawing, kibitzing(also kibbitzing), nattering, palavering, pattering, prating, prattling, rapping, rattling, running on, schmoozing(or shmoozing), twittering, visiting gossiping, tattlingdescanting, discussing, expatiatingyakking(also yacking), yammering, yapping blowing smoke, chewing the fat(also chewing the rag), shooting the breeze, talking a blue streak to express (a thought or emotion) in wordsyou're talking nonsense: take a minute and think about what you are trying to say, and then start speaking articulating, bringing out, enunciating, passing, saying, speaking, stating, telling, uttering, verbalizing, vocalizing airing, discussing, giving, looking, sharing, sounding, ventilating, venting, voicingblabbering, blurting, bolting, getting off, shootingadvertising, announcing, blazing, broadcasting, declaring, posting, proclaiming, promulgating, publicizing, publishingaffirming, alleging, asserting, averring, avouching, avowingbreathing, chirping, drawling, gasping, lipping, mouthing, murmuring, purring, shouting, spluttering, spouting, whisperingclothing, couching, formulating, formulizing, phrasing, putting, wordingcommenting, piping up (with), remarkingripping (out), snarling putting into words stifling, suppressing to give information (as to the authorities) about another's improper or unlawful activitiesafter being threatened, the eyewitness started talking at length about what he had seen in the alley finking, grassing (on)(British slang), informing, ratting (on), singing, snitching, splitting (on)(British), squeaking, squealing, telling (on) betraying, giving away, turning inbackstabbing, crossing, double-crossing, selling (out), two-timingblabbing, tattlingtipping (off) dropping a dime (on) to relate sometimes questionable or secret information of a personal natureyou're a fine one to talk about your sister's marital problems when you have had plenty of your own blabbing, dishing, gossiping, tattling, wagging bandying (about), circulating, noising (about or abroad), rumoringblabbering, disclosing, divulging, revealing, tellinghinting, implying, insinuating, intimating, letting on, suggestinginforming, reporting, snitching, squealing, tipping (off)babbling, spillingconfiding spilling the beans clamming up, shutting up |