(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.
Gossipy
Definition:
(a.) Full of, or given to, gossip.
Example Sentences:
(1) In his previous job, as BBC Vision director, he made a generally favourable impression on media reporters, especially those from papers hostile to the corporation, for his willingness to attend friendly and gossipy dinners without being chaperoned by BBC minders.
(2) Rakoff's version of this story, however, comes with an extra, gossipy twist – particularly for those readers who move in New York media circles.
(3) Weekend newspaper supplements retailed gossipy accounts of how The Satanic Verses had failed to win the Booker prize, with malicious claims regarding Rushdie's tantrums when this happened.
(4) McBride confessed in the emails that most of the stories were "gossipy and intended to destabilised the Tories", according to the News of World, and admitted using "a bit of poetic licence".
(5) Davis gets on well with journalists: he is engaging, not pompous, open to ideas and gossipy, as well as – adds someone who knows him well – completely ruthless and entirely devoted to the cause of David Davis .
(6) However, instead of regarding Dr Kelly's mention of Mr Campbell as a "revelation", Watts dismissed it as "a gossipy aside comment".
(7) They include serious volumes such as Journey of the Reforms, the best-selling memoirs of Zhao Ziyang , the high-ranking reformist official who was imprisoned after the Tiananmen protests; as well as gossipy tomes such as The Secret Deals Between Xi Jinping and Bo Xilai , a fast read with few reliable facts.
(8) Her role The bluestocking who missed the story, or the sober Newsnight science editor who carefully chose not to report what she dismissed as a "gossipy aside" - both views held of Susan Watts, the second BBC journalist thrust into the limelight at the Hutton inquiry.
(9) But the real spiritual argument happens in how her weirdly cut and twisting narratives unfold: a death foretold long before a person's story has even started, as in The Driver's Seat (1970) or The Hothouse by the East River (1973); the interest in how superstition and other forms of false consciousness precipitate evil actions, as in The Bachelors (1960) or The Girls of Slender Means (1963); the way an innocuous-looking catchphrase, like Miss Jean Brodie's famous "crème de la crème", attains a mysteriously sacramental force by dint of a rhythmic repetition, half-gossipy, half-incantatory in intent.
(10) Too full of ideas to sleep, he started work on a new film or novel or play – or all at the same time – at 5am, ending in time for long gossipy lunches with friends and family, followed by theatre and parties in London.
(11) Dinsey started using the site OpenDiary from the late 90s onwards, and then moved on to MSN Spaces in 2004, writing a gossipy blog about who was kissing whom at school.
(12) The five booksellers – including a British and a Swedish national – had been linked to the same Hong Kong publisher and bookshop that specialised in gossipy works on the private lives and power struggles of China’s Communist party leaders.
(13) That’s why you see these artists become a tabloid regular and then become artistically and musically irrelevant, because they let [gossipy websites] stifle them.
(14) Some are gossipy and gonzo, like Bob Carr’s magnificently picaresque romp through the foreign affairs portfolio published earlier this year.
(15) Sociable, gossipy São Paulo crackles with life and noise and is much friendlier than might be expected: this is a city of immigrants, and foreigners are welcome.
(16) Sorkin wrote, after weeks of reporting the gossipy, juicy details of the hacked emails, the media finally “got serious”.
(17) He was gossipy, bitchy and very witty – fun to be around but also a huge snob.
(18) And yet Denton always loved gossipy details, as with his obvious joy at discovering that Barings rogue trader Nick Leeson used superman as his computer password.
(19) Thiel notoriously funded a lawsuit against the website Gawker in effort to shut the gossipy blog down.
(20) Another far less substantiated rumour concerns Judi Dench, with Big Shiny Robot's Full of Sith podcast claiming she's being considered for the role of Mon Mothma, a founder of the Rebel Alliance – the gossipy Latino Review also hinted at her casting.