garrulous
GAIR-uh-lusadjMeaning talking too much, especially about unimportant things
Memory hook GARRU-lous: Gus RUNS ON. Once Grandpa Gus starts talking, he runs on and on: the weather, his knees, the fish he almost caught. Gus is garrulous.
Our garrulous seatmate told us about every one of her eleven cats.
In context The garrulous barber kept up a stream of chatter about the weather, his nephew’s soccer team and the price of eggs, hardly pausing to breathe.
Similar talkative, chatty, gabby, long-winded
Opposite taciturn, quiet, reticent
From Latin garrulus, “chattering,” from garrire, “to chatter.”