as in colloquial
having the style and content of everyday conversation
writes a chattery advice column for the local paper
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Adjective
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Because back nine is close to backside, and backside is just far too colloquial.—
Paulina Dedaj,
FOXNews.com,
8 Apr. 2025 -
Russ Scholl, a ski instructor at Breckenridge Ski Resort, has published a 133-square grid of funky colloquial phrases for different types of snow.—
Brittney Melton,
NPR,
24 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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The great media of the 20th century—the art-pop album, the feature-length film, the gallery show, the literary novel—may be fighting for their life, but that’s because of competition from new forms defined by a sense of immediacy: short-form video, chatty podcasts, video games, memes.—
Spencer Kornhaber,
The Atlantic,
5 May 2025
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In October, 1925, the magazine’s founding editor, Harold Ross, put a recent Vassar graduate named Lois Long in charge of a chatty shopping column called Fifth Avenue.—
Rachel Syme,
New Yorker,
4 May 2025
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“Chattery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chattery. Accessed 19 May. 2025.
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