ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

Adj. speaking &c; spoken &c v.; oral, lingual, phonetic, not written, unwritten,
outspoken; eloquent, elocutionary; oratorical, rhetorical; declamatory; grandiloquent &c
577; talkative &c 584; Ciceronian, nuncupative, Tullian.
Adv. orally &c adj.; by word of mouth, viva voce, from the lips of.
Phr. quoth he, said he &c; action is eloquence [Coriolanus]; pour the full tide of
eloquence along [Pope]; she speaks poignards and every word stabs [Much Ado About
Nothing]; speech is but broken light upon the depth of the unspoken [G.
Eliot]; to try thy eloquence now 'tis time [Antony and Cleopatra].
583. [Imperfect Speech.] Stammering -- N. inarticulateness; stammering &c v.;
hesitation &c v.; impediment in one's speech; titubancy † , traulism † ; whisper &c (faint
sound) 405; lisp, drawl, tardiloquence † ; nasal tone, nasal accent; twang; falsetto &c (want
of voice) 581; broken voice, broken accents, broken sentences.
brogue &c 563; slip of the tongue, lapsus linouae [Lat.].
V. stammer, stutter, hesitate, falter, hammer; balbutiate † , balbucinate † , haw, hum and
haw, be unable to put two words together.
mumble, mutter; maud † , mauder † ; whisper &c 405; mince, lisp; jabber, gibber; sputter,
splutter; muffle, mump † ; drawl, mouth; croak; speak thick, speak through the nose;
snuffle, clip one's words; murder the language, murder the King's English, murder the
Queen's English; mispronounce, missay † .
Adj. stammering &c v.; inarticulate, guttural, nasal; tremulous; affected.
Adv. sotto voce &c (faintly) 405 [Lat.].
584. Loquacity -- N. loquacity, loquaciousness; talkativeness &c adj.; garrulity;
multiloquence † , much speaking.
jaw; gabble; jabber, chatter; prate, prattle, cackle, clack; twaddle, twattle, rattle;
caquet † , caquetterie [Fr.]; blabber, bavardage † , bibble-babble † , gibble-gabble † ; small talk
&c (converse) 588.
fluency, flippancy, volubility, flowing, tongue; flow of words; flux de bouche [Fr.],
flux de mots [Fr.]; copia verborum [Lat.], cacoethes loquendi [Lat.]; furor loquendi
[Lat.]; verbosity &c (diffuseness) 573; gift of the gab &c (eloquence) 582.
talker; chatterer, chatterbox; babbler &c v.; rattle; ranter; sermonizer, proser † , driveler;
blatherskite [U.S.]; gossip &c (converse) 588; magpie, jay, parrot, poll, Babel; moulin a
paroles [Fr.].
V. be loquacious &c adj.; talk glibly, pour forth, patter; prate, palaver, prose, chatter,
prattle, clack, jabber, jaw; blather, blatter † , blether † ; rattle, rattle on; twaddle, twattle;
babble, gabble; outtalk; talk oneself out of breath, talk oneself hoarse; expatiate &c
(speak at length) 573; gossip &c (converse) 588; din in the ears &c (repeat) 104; talk at
random, talk nonsense &c 497; be hoarse with talking.
Adj. loquacious, talkative, garrulous, linguacious † , multiloquous † ; largiloquent † ;
chattering &c v.; chatty &c (sociable) 892; declamatory &c 582; open-mouthed.
fluent, voluble, glib, flippant; long tongued, long winded &c (diffuse) 573.
Adv. trippingly on the tongue; glibly &c adj.; off the reel.
Phr. the tongue running fast, the tongue running loose, the tongue running on wheels; all
talk and no cider; foul whisperings are abroad [Macbeth]; what a spendthrift is he of his
tongue! [Tempest].