[f. TALK v. + -ING2.] That talks; loquacious.
1562. J. Heywood, Prov. & Epigr. (1867), 177. One talkyng tung.
1699. R. L’Estrange, Erasm. Colloq. (1711), 92. This is the talkingst Place that ever I set my Foot in.
1710. Steele, Tatler, No. 197, ¶ 3. The talking Creatures we meet in publick Places.
1770. Goldsm., Des. Vill., 14. The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade, For talking age and whispering lovers made.
1870. M. D. Conway, Earthw. Pilgr., xiii. 171. Man has been defined as the talking animal.
1877. D. D. Home, Lights & Shadows of Spiritualism, II. iii. 86. The winking Madonnas, the roods of grace, the talking heads, and bending images, were dragged into the light of day and their concealed machinery exposed to the disgust and derision of men.
Hence Talkingly adv., in a talking manner.
1691. Flavel, Πλανηαογια, in Wks. (1799), III. 485. The curious colours of holiness, zeal, and free grace, artificially laid upon the face of error, how wrinkled and ugly soever in itself, sets if off temptingly and talkingly to weak and injudicious minds.
1756. 4th Lett. to the People of England, 40. If he were the least apprehensive of his Country’s Ruin, could he be thus talkingly employed?
1866. Friends’ Intelligencer, XXIII, Aug., 340/1. O! how sweet is love! how pleasant is its nature! how talkingly doth it behave itself in ever condition, upon every occasion, to every person, and about every thing!
1895. H. B. M. Watson, in Chap-Bk., III. 489. At the word, spoken very talkingly, and with such an absence of offense, my dudgeon vanished.
