as in colloquial
having the style and content of everyday conversation
writes a chattery advice column for the local paper
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Adjective
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Twain dared to buck the expectations of critics by using the colloquial dialect and slang of those with little education.—
Kyra Davis Lurie
June 11,
Literary Hub,
11 June 2025 -
So what follows is the colloquial Q&A, more or less unedited, from my email exchange with that reporter.—
George Calhoun,
Forbes.com,
31 May 2025
Adjective
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By Kate Chin Park The Mini Crossword: Thursday, June 5, 2025 Sound from a chatty kitty: four letters.—
Nadav Machete,
New Yorker,
19 June 2025
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Stylistically, the book becomes a motley, contaminated thing, a mix of Crews’s many modes—chatty, terse, demotic, detached, priapic, noirish, gnomic.—
Charlie Lee,
Harpers Magazine,
18 June 2025
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“Chattery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chattery. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.
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