verbal diarrhoea
Uncontrollable word flood
Verbal diarrhoea is excessive, uncontrolled talking—a torrent of words that seems impossible to stop.
The metaphor compares compulsive speech to the digestive condition: Once he starts on politics, it's verbal diarrhoea.
The term is mildly vulgar and usually critical.
Also spelled verbal diarrhea.
- filibusterDelaying tactic through speech
- gabbleRapid, muddled talk
- logorrheaCompulsive excessive wordiness
- garrulousTediously long-winded
- loquaciousInclined to talk much
diatribe · windbag · trots · chatterbox · prolixity · jabber · blathering · waffling · stream of consciousness · running off at the mouth · verbosity · runs · blabbermouth · gift of the gab · motor mouth · prattling · gasbag · rambling
verbal diarrhoeasilence
Total lack of sound
taciturnity · reticence · muteness · quietness · speechlessness
verbal diarrhoeaconciseness
Quality of being brief
precision · pithiness · succinctness · brevity · measured speech
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