What's the difference between chatty and gabby?

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.

Gabby


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "In order to do something significant, we are going to have to pass laws," said Barber, a former aide to congresswoman Gabby Giffords, shot in Tucson, Arizona, in January last year.
  • (2) It was one up front again and Bent needs someone to play off, whether that's Heskey or Gabby, Ash needs to be on the wing not in a free role and Downing was on the wrong wing.
  • (3) Gabby Logan will provide news from the England camp and also report from pitch-side during matches.
  • (4) So, hopefully Gabby Torres and Brown are up for it, cause they are carrying the team tonight.
  • (5) The Leveson inquiry also heard that Michel wrote to Oliver's deputy, Gabby Bertin, on 6 July 2011 thanking her for sending messages to Rebekah Brooks.
  • (6) Here's a summary of where things stand: • Testifying this morning will be two famous figures on opposite sides of the gun debate : Captain Mark Kelly, husband of former congresswoman and gun violence victim Gabby Giffords, is to advocate for stricter gun laws, while Wayne LaPierre, CEO of the National Rifle Association, is to make the case for more guns and fewer rules.
  • (7) Gabby Bertin, who is now David Cameron's press secretary, was paid by pharmaceutical firm Pfizer to work for Fox's controversial Atlantic Bridge charity.
  • (8) Their first-half efforts here all lacked direction, as was the case when their impish Spanish midfielder Carles Gil dragged wide just before Hull’s opening goal and when Ashley Westwood clipped a 36th-minute free-kick over the wall, or power on the only occasion they did manage an effort on target when Allan McGregor saved a tepid glancing header from Gabby Agbonlahor.
  • (9) The California attorney general and Senate candidate Kamala Harris spoke about persistence in the face of prejudice and called for victory in 2016; outgoing senator Barbara Mikulski made a joyous, ferocious call for women to organize politically; Emily’s List founder Ellen Malcolm spoke fondly of the group’s humble origins to the “18 million cracks in the ceiling” created by Clinton’s 2007 primary campaign; Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi and former representative Gabby Giffords spoke proudly of the newest figures of the group; and Senator Al Franken spoke fondly of the lot and cracked jokes whenever able: “First of all, I apologize for being a guy.” Nearly all called for Clinton to run, and Mikulski, Pelosi and others declared her victory certain.
  • (10) The fact that England will not have a specialist striker due to the monumentally silly suspension incurred by Frazier Campbell doesn't augur well either, and Gabby Agbonlahor and Joe Hart's omission aren't very encouraging either.
  • (11) Alan Shearer, Phil Neville, Rio Ferdinand, Gary Lineker, Thierry Henry, Gabby Logan, Alan Hansen.
  • (12) Gabby Logan , presenter Gabby Logan and Roy Hodgson, then Fulham manager, in 2010.
  • (13) He travelled to Fort Hood, Texas soon after the 5 November 2009 tragedy in which 13 service members died at the hands of a fellow military member; he was in Tucson, Arizona days after the 8 January 2011 that left the Congress member Gabby Giffords shot in the head and six dead; and he was in Aurora, Colorado to mark the 20 July rampage in a cinema in which 12 people were killed.
  • (14) If gymnastics is not your thing, there is always Let's Play Darts, a pro-celebrity darts tournament hosted by Gabby Logan in aid of Comic Relief.
  • (15) It's been pretty intense, dramatic and very moving at moments - particularly Gabby Giffords' astonishing statement and the many references to the little kids who died in Newtown.
  • (16) The smallest of mistakes – a step backwards on her dismount – put the gold out of reach and there followed a nerve-racking wait as Tweddle watched the final two competitors – Aliya Mustafina and Gabby Douglas – to see if she would maintain a position in the top three.
  • (17) • Gabby Logan is part of the BBC's World Cup lineup.
  • (18) 3.46pm GMT Kelly says the right to bear arms is sacrosanct, but the right does not extend to criminals, terrorists and the mentally ill. "Gabby and I are pro-gun ownership.
  • (19) Sports presenter Gabby Logan has told how she was once reprimanded by a BBC boss for wearing a pair of high-heeled boots and asked to dress as if she was "doing the dishes".
  • (20) Korine is big-sisterly and diplomatic, Benson and Hudgens are goofy, gabby, earnest and lovable by turns, while Gomez, the youngest and the only non-blonde in the movie, is often the one who sensibly and self-deprecatingly re-routes a conversation going adrift, who actually answers the original question, exuding the kind pragmatism, sanity and poise you might expect from a hard-bitten 13-year veteran of the kiddie-showbiz wars.