Reverse Dictionary: VERBOSE

VERBOSE, VERBOSITY

ADJECTIVES
1611 VERBAL using many words; talkative, verbose → obs.
.M17 GABBERING loquacious, talkative, verbose → Eng. dial.
1657 VERBOUS verbose, long-winded → obs.
1676 VERBOSIOUS verbose, long-winded → obs.
1828 — PERISSOLOGICAL using more words than are necessary, exuberant in words, verbose
1866 BAGGY of language: inflated, verbose
1960 FAT-MOUTHED boastful, noisy, verbose → sl., orig. African-American
1974 FATMOUTH boastful, noisy, verbose → sl., orig. African-American
1980 LABA-LABA — LABBA-LABBA talkative, verbose, effusive → Black British sl.


NOUNS
1589 LONG LANGUAGE verbosity → obs.
1602 POLYLOGY loquacity; talkativeness; verbosity
1787 VERBAGE verbosity, excessive wordiness
1816 — PALAVERMENT verbiage
1818 MIMINY-PIMINY finicky or affected writing; verbosity, prolixity → obs.
1823 VERBAL DIARRHOEA unwarranted verbosity → sl.
1836 LONGILOQUENCE a speaking at great or excessive length; verbosity
1930 YAPPINESS verbosity, talkativeness → colloq.
1960 CHATS excessive verbosity, caused by nerves, fear, shock, etc. → sl.
1996 FAT MOUTH verbosity → US sl.


NOUNS, PERSON
1483 LANGUAGER a verbose person → obs.
1883 — TOOTLER a writer of twaddle, one who is verbose
1923 SCLORE a verbose, empty talker; a chatterbox; one who prates on endlessly → Sc.


VERBS
1847 BLOVIATE to talk aimlessly and boastingly; to be verbose → Amer.