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Chatty

//ˈt͡ʃæti// adj, noun, slang

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of a person, chatting a lot or fond of chatting. informal

    "When a typically chatty employee who often participates in meetings and is engaged and enthusiastic suddenly becomes unmotivated and quieter, that person could be at risk for burnout."

  2. 2
    Infested with lice; or, (figuratively) dirty, worn or of poor quality; lousy. Australia, British, New-Zealand, dated, dialectal

    "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."

  3. 3
    Of a text or speech, expressed in a conversational style. informal
  4. 4
    Supplying more information than necessary; verbose.

    "Chatty error messages may help attackers to compromise your server."

Adjective
  1. 1
    prone to friendly informal communication wordnet
  2. 2
    full of trivial conversation wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative form of chattee (“Indian clay pot”). alt-of, alternative

Etymology

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

From chat (“louse”) + -y.

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