garrulous (GAR-uh-luhs, GAR-yuh-) adjective
1. Given to excessive and often trivial or rambling talk;
tiresomely
talkative.
2. Wordy and rambling.
[From Latin garrulus, from garrire, to chatter.]
"Hoeg, as the garrulous, intrusive narrator, has a gleeful
time
disorienting his characters."
Brigitte Frase, Four Hundred Seventy Years of Solitude,
Newsday, 15 Oct 1995.
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