What's the difference between chatty and chitty?

Chatty


Definition:

  • (a.) Given to light, familiar talk; talkative.
  • (n.) A porous earthen pot used in India for cooling water, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "It's like revisiting an old world," says Topley-Bird, who is droll and spacey where Tricky is hyperactively chatty.
  • (2) His show is called Chatty Man , which is a good title for Carr.
  • (3) He seemed disappointed, but was chatty and easy to get on with."
  • (4) This rather chatty narrative is based on spina bifida care experience, in Sheffield, Toronto, and Chicago.
  • (5) Inside there's a chatty column about a dilemma that irritates all New Yorkers – how to swipe your Metro card at the turnstiles of the subway.
  • (6) Musk has a reputation for being prickly but when I meet him at SpaceX , his headquarters west of Los Angeles, he is affable and chatty, cheerfully expounding on space exploration, climate change, Richard Branson and Hollywood.
  • (7) Leading actor Winner: Ben Whishaw – Richard II (The Hollow Crown) Derek Jacobi – Last Tango In Halifax Sean Bean – Accused (Tracie's Story) Toby Jones – The Girl Leading actress Winner: Sheridan Smith – Mrs Biggs Anne Reid – Last Tango In Halifax Rebecca Hall – Parade's End Sienna Miller – The Girl Supporting actor Winner: Simon Russell Beale – Henry IV Part 2 (The Hollow Crown) Peter Capaldi – The Hour Stephen Graham – Accused (Tracie's Story) Harry Lloyd – The Fear Supporting actress Winner: Olivia Colman – Accused (Mo's Story) Anastasia Hille – The Fear Imelda Staunton – The Girl Sarah Lancashire – Last Tango In Halifax Performance in an entertainment programme Winner: Alan Carr for Alan Carr: Chatty Man Graham Norton for The Graham Norton Show Ant and Dec for I'm a Celebrity … Get Me Out Of Here!
  • (8) One of Enoch Powell's most famous quips was prompted by an encounter with the resident House of Commons barber: a notoriously chatty character, who enjoyed treating captive clients to his views on politics and the state of the world.
  • (9) I listened alongside a chatty young Scottish Conservative from Stirling who wandered over to meet him with me, and so it is possible Fox may have simply assumed that I was another activist.
  • (10) Previously chatty and relaxed, he spoke in a loud and oddly deliberate voice.
  • (11) Rather at odds with the self-presentation of a chatty provincial housewife whose books just "pop up" out of nowhere is a forthcoming schedule that suggests 2011 might turn out to be an annus mirabilis in a life already rich in achievement.
  • (12) I hail a cab  and the chatty driver asks what I've been up to this evening.
  • (13) • A new series of Chatty Man starts on Friday 27 April on Channel 4.
  • (14) So since the Fed is so chatty, do we know if Yellen believes in this stimulus?
  • (15) The volunteers at the West Cheshire food bank were “kind, helpful, chatty people”, he says.
  • (16) It shows their prowess in the wild," one chatty guide told the media.
  • (17) It is not, fair to say, as it is billed: the reporter – Amy Chozick, on the paper's media business beat – calls up on the off-chance of a revealing interview and, failing that, settles for tidbits from Wendi's chatty friends: "Through a family spokesman, Mrs Murdoch declined to be interviewed for this article, as did other members of the Murdoch family.
  • (18) Sometimes he was very chatty, sometimes he was very quiet – I always thought he should have been on the telly.
  • (19) The bar staff are super chatty, as are the regulars, the gents are still outside in the yard and the soundtrack is old northern soul and Johnny Cash.
  • (20) Chatty, well-informed staff add warmth to a slightly dour pub.

Chitty


Definition:

  • (a.) Full of chits or sprouts.
  • (a.) Childish; like a babe.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In fact it was led by Detective Superintendent Richard Chitty (who died in 1983).
  • (2) Julia Donaldson will be showcasing her latest book The Flying Bath as part of the children's programme, as the actor Mackenzie Crook launches his new title The Lost Journals of Benjamin Tooth, Frank Cottrell Boyce returns to Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and Rosen celebrates 25 years of We're Going on a Bear Hunt.
  • (3) What you see in this film and indeed in Topsy Turvy and all our films - I say our films because Dick Pope has shot all my films since Life is Sweet and my designers Alison Chitty, who designed my earlier films, and Eve Stewart who does them now.
  • (4) Ford's motorsport supremo Walter Hayes had fallen into conversation with the film producer Albert "Cubby" Broccoli, with the result that AMR suddenly found itself building a handful of Ford Zephyr-engined cars for Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968).
  • (5) And in both introducing and summing up the debate, she along with many of her political peers currently receiving all the public adulation of the childcatcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang spoke more intelligently, authoritatively and compassionately about mental health than I've heard from many a professional.
  • (6) Our work on Microtus is consistent with the hypothesis of genetic and behavioral effects proposed by Chitty (6) (Fig.
  • (7) Peter also encouraged musicians including John Tams and designers such as Alison Chitty.
  • (8) We as a democratic country need to find durable solutions to ensure these children remain protected from harm for the rest of their lives.” At safe accommodation for child trafficking victims run by the charity Love146, Lynne Chitty, its UK care director, says that she has helped between 40 and 50 Vietnamese children try to rebuild their lives after trafficking experiences.
  • (9) He enhanced Blue Murder at St Trinian's (1957), about the madcap girls' school, and was Grandpa Potts in the successful children's film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968), alongside Dick Van Dyke.
  • (10) These children suffer high levels of neglect, emotional abuse and, in the absence of any protective factors, are highly vulnerable to physical and sexual abuse.” Despite the government’s pledge to end modern slavery and the UK’s first modern slavery bill, passed in March, Chitty says she has seen no change in the numbers of Vietnamese children coming through her charity’s services.

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