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.