a. [f. TALK v. + -ABLE.]
a. Of a thing: That can or may be talked of or about. b. Of a person: Ready to converse; affable.
1780. J. Odell, American Times, I. 5.
| Such is the man—his tongue he never balks, | |
| On all things talkable he [Gouverneur Morris] boldly talks. |
a. 1800. Gen. Paoli, in P. Fitzgerald, Life J. Boswell (1891), I. viii. 91. So cheerful, so witty, so gentle, so talkable.
1830. Blackw. Mag., XXVIII. 893. All speak—talk—whisper … of all the speakable, talkable, whisperable … interesting affairs, incidents and occurrences.
1858. Harper’s Mag., XVI. March, 492/1. Progress is quite palpable to every body; and as it is one of those very talkable matters that lie midway between simple chat and grave discourse, what can hinder it from being a popular complacency of the first order?
1899. H. Van Dyke, Fisherman’s Luck, 54. I should therefore have no hesitation in advising any one to choose, for companionship on an angling expedition, long or short, a person who has the rare merit of being talkable.
