adjective, garrulous, talkative
Conversation was virtually nonexistent with Karen's babblative father sharing stories, nonstop, from the nomadic chapter of this life.
Karen now knows where she gets it from !
"Babblative" is a chatty member of the "active" family, a collection of several hundred English words ending with the Latinate suffix-ative (which means "relating to" or "tending to"). " Babblative" appeared in the 1500s, but it wasn't the first discursive member of its clan. "Talkative" has been around since the 1400s. Other verbal family member are more recent, but their heritage is distinguished. "Writative" (meaning "given or addicted to writing") was apparently first used by Alexander Pope in a 1736 letter to Jonathan Swift. (He wrote, "Increase of years makes men more talkative but less writative.") Younger still, "scribblative" (meaning "given to verbose and hastily written writing") was probably coined in 1829 by Robert Southey when he wrote of "professors of the arts babblative and scribblative."
my special place, and special couple, Happy Valentine's Day
hugs always
karen charlie, and enzo
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