Talk Definition
- listen
- refuse
- refrain
- be silent
- hush
- be still
- keep-quiet
- parley
- Often used in plural: negotiation
- witticism
- soliloquy
- rhapsody
- rant
- parlance
- fustian
- flummery
- flattery
- expatiation
- discussion
- descant
- conference
- communication
- To brag.
- To speak rationally and coherently.
- To speak knowledgeably about something, especially something that one claims or implies one can do well.
- bragging or boasting talk
- to admonish or caution
Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Talk
- talk big
- talk sense
- talk the talk
- big talk
- have a talk with
- make talk
- talk around
- talk at
- talk away
- talk back
- talk big
- talk down
- talk down to
- talk someone's ear off
- talk into
- talk out
- talk out of
- talk over
- talk up
Origin of Talk
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From Middle English talken, talkien, from Old English *tealcian (“to talk, chat"), from Proto-Germanic *talkōnÄ… (“to talk, chatter"), frequentative form of Proto-Germanic *talōnÄ… (“to count, recount, tell"), from Proto-Indo-European *dol-, *del- (“to aim, calculate, adjust, count"), equivalent to tell +"Ž -k. Cognate with Scots talk (“to talk"), Eastern Frisian talken (“to talk, chat"), Low German Talk (“talk"). Related also to Danish tale (“to talk, speak"), Swedish tala (“to talk, speak, say, chatter"), Icelandic tala (“to talk"), Old English talian (“to count, calculate, reckon, account, consider, think, esteem, value; argue; tell, relate; impute, assign"). More at tale.
From Wiktionary
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Middle English talken del-2 in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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