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gossip, claptrap, prattle, prattling, chatter, verbiage, cackle,
bunk, nonsense, rubbish, balderdash, poppycock, hot air, stuff
and nonsense, twaddle, Colloq malarkey, piffle, hooey, hokum,
bunkum, bosh, hogwash, horse feathers, Slang bilge(-water),
crap, bull, tripe, Brit tosh, balls, US apple-sauce, Taboo slang
horseshit, bullshit: That's just a lot of talk. 19 dialect,
speech, way or manner of speaking, fa‡on de parler, language,
jargon, argot, cant, patois, accent, Colloq lingo: Can you
understand musicians' talk? My parents' talk is peppered with
words long obsolete in standard English.
talkative adj. garrulous, loquacious, verbose, long-winded, voluble,
prolix, wordy, chatty, gossipy, effusive, talky, logorrhoeic or
logorrhoeal, Colloq gabby, blabby, Slang big-mouthed; US running
off at the mouth: The children are so talkative I can't get a
word in edgeways.
talker n. 1 speaker, lecturer, orator, speech-maker, keynoter,
spellbinder, tub-thumper, rabble-rouser, demagogue, haranguer,
ranter: You might disagree with what he says, but you must
admit he's a great talker. 2 blusterer, blatherskite, swaggerer,
show-off, Slang windbag, gasbag, lot of hot air, blowhard: He
is a big talker, but he never gets anything done.
tall adj. 1 high, towering, big, soaring, lofty, giant, gigantic;
multi-storey: The giant sequoias of California are the tallest
trees in the world. There are many tall buildings in most major
cities. 2 lanky, gangling, rangy, leggy, long-legged, big,
giant, huge, gigantic, large: Some of those basketball players
are unbelievably tall. 3 exaggerated, overblown, far-fetched,
improbable, unbelievable, incredible, preposterous, outrageous,
overdone, absurd, Colloq Brit steep: He told us some amusing
tall tales about his fishing adventures.
tally v. 1 agree, coincide, accord, correspond, fit, compare, match
(up), square, conform, concur, harmonize, Colloq US jibe:
Nothing I could do would make my figures tally with those of the
bank. 2 Sometimes, tally up. count (up or out), enumerate,
record, register, reckon, add (up), total (up), tabulate,
itemize, list, calculate, compute: Please tally up what I owe
you.
--n. 3 count, enumeration, record, register, reckoning,