loquacious

loh-KWAY-shusadj

Meaning very talkative

Memory hook lo-QUACK-cious: a duck who never stops. Daisy the duck quacks to everyone she meets, about the weather, the pond, the bread and the weather again. She is loquacious.

Our loquacious cab driver told us his whole life story before we reached the hotel.

In context Unlike her quiet twin, Bea was loquacious; she could chat for an hour with a stranger at the bus stop and still have more to say.

Similar talkative, chatty, garrulous, gabby

Opposite taciturn, quiet, reticent

From Latin loquax, “talkative,” from loqui (to speak).

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