a. [f. TALK sb. + -Y.] Inclined to or abounding in talk; talkative, loquacious.
1815. Byron, Lett. to Moore, 31 Oct., in Moore, Life (1832), III. 188. Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogethery, then inarticulate, and then drunk.
1862. Carlyle, Fredk. Gt., XII. vii. (1873), IV. 172. The King is somewhat talky.
1884. A. A. Putnam, Ten Yrs. Police Judge, xii. 101. One of the talky attorneys dispels all their hopes.
Hence Talky-talky a., abounding in (mere) talk; not rising above the level of talk.
1836. Alienated Manor, V. i., in Dramas, I. 233. Tat talky talky man chace him from tis spot.
1883. Sat. Rev., 10 Feb., 189/2. These Essays … are very ‘talky-talky.’
1884. G. Allen, Philistia, II. 301. A social leader, of the ordinary commonplace talky-talky sort.
