Definition of talking

"talking" in the noun sense

1. talk, talking

an exchange of ideas via conversation

"let's have more work and less talk around here"

"talking" in the verb sense

1. talk, speak

exchange thoughts talk with

"We often talk business"

"Actions talk louder than words"

2. talk, speak, utter, mouth, verbalize, verbalise

express in speech

"She talks a lot of nonsense"

"This depressed patient does not verbalize"

3. speak, talk

use language

"the baby talks already"

"the prisoner won't speak"

"they speak a strange dialect"

4. spill, talk

reveal information

"If you don't oblige me, I'll talk!"

"The former employee spilled all the details"

5. spill the beans, let the cat out of the bag, talk, tattle, blab, peach, babble, sing, babble out, blab out

divulge confidential information or secrets

"Be careful

6. lecture, talk

deliver a lecture or talk

"She will talk at Rutgers next week"

"Did you ever lecture at Harvard?"

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Quotations for talking

Talking pays no toll. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Talkers are no good doers. [ William Shakespeare ]

Error is always talkative. [ Goldsmith ]

Talking of love is making it. [ Proverb ]

Talking is the disease of age. [ Ben Jonson ]

Evil tongues never want a whet. [ Le Sage ]

With vollies of eternal babble. [ Butler ]

Talking is one of the fine arts. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]

They always talk who never think. [ Prior ]

I profess not talking: only this.
Let each man do his best. [ Shakespeare ]

Men talk only to conceal the mind. [ Young ]

Men of few words are the best men. [ William Shakespeare ]

Who talks much, must talk in vain. [ Gay ]

Alas for the folly of the loquacious! [ Seneca ]

Fools, to talking ever prone
Are sure to make their follies known. [ Gay ]

No season now for calm, familiar talk. [ Homer ]

We say little if not egged on by vanity. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

Things are often spoke and seldom meant. [ William Shakespeare ]

Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers. [ Swift ]

Length of saying makes languor of hearing. [ Joseph Roux ]

Fie, fie, how frantically I square my talk! [ William Shakespeare ]

Fie! What a spendthrift he is of his tongue! [ William Shakespeare ]

I am talking of hay, and you of horse beans. [ Proverb ]

Madame de Stael talks herself into a beauty. [ Curran ]

But far more numerous was the herd of such,
Who think too little, and who talk too much. [ Dryden ]

Thy talk is the sweet extract of all speech,
And holds mine ear in blissful slavery. [ Bailey ]

Even wit is a burden when it talks too long. [ Dryden ]

Words learned by rote, a parrot may rehearse;
But talking is not always to converse. [ William Cowper ]

Much tongue and much judgment seldom go together. [ L'Estrange ]

We talk little if we do not talk about ourselves. [ Hazlitt ]

I think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue. [ Cato ]

Too much scratching pains, too much talking plagues. [ Proverb ]

Long talking begets short hearing, for people go away. [ Jean Paul ]

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud. [ Addison ]

It is the wolf in the story; talking of him, he appeared.

No great talker ever did any great thing yet in this world. [ Ouida ]

The devil is never nearer, than when we are talking of him. [ Proverb ]

People who have nothing to say are never at a loss in talking. [ Henry Wheeler Shaw (pen name Josh Billings) ]

Impertinent and lavish talking is in itself a very vicious habit. [ Thomas à Kempis ]

Consider, I'm a peer of the realm, and I shall die if I don't talk. [ Reynolds ]

Society has gone to the dogs: a lot of nobodies talking about nothing. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]

Talking and eloquence are not the same; and to speak well are two things. [ Ben Jonson ]

Those whose tongues are gentlemen ushers to their wit, and still go before it. [ Ben Jonson ]

The inexhaustible talk that was the flow of a golden sea of eloquence and wisdom. [ William Winter ]

Though we have two eyes, we are supplied with but one tongue. Draw your own moral. [ Alphonse Karr ]

A person who talks with equal vivacity on every subject excites no interest in any. [ Hazlitt ]

It was hard to have a conversation with anyone; there were too many people talking. [ Yogi Berra ]

Were we as eloquent as angels, we should please some more by listening than by talking. [ Colton ]

In general, those who have nothing to say contrive to spend the longest time in doing it. [ Lowell ]

The garrulous sea is talking to the shore; let us go down and hear the graybeard's speech. [ Alexander Smith ]

The tongue of a fool is the key of his counsel, which, in a wise man, wisdom hath in keeping. [ Socrates ]

When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me. [ Swift ]

The tongue is the instrument of the greatest good and the greatest evil that is done in the world. [ Sir Walter Raleigh ]

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact. [ George Eliot ]

Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk. [ Montesquieu ]

Happy is the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it. [ Hare ]

Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks. [ Ben Jonson ]

The extreme pleasure we take in talking of ourselves should make us fear that we give very little to those who listen to us. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

Were we as eloquent as angels, we would please some men, some women, and some children much more by listening than by talking. [ Colton ]

There are braying men in the world, as well as braying asses; for what is loud and senseless talking any other than a way of braying? [ Sir Roger L'Estrange ]

An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person. [ Addison ]

Some have a violent and turgid manner of talking and thinking: they are always in extremes, and pronounce concerning everything in the superlative. [ Dr. Watts ]

Talking is like playing the harp. There is as much in laying the hand on the strings to stop their vibrations as in twanging them to bring out the music. [ Holmes ]

Talking with a host is next best to talking with one's self.... He is wiser than to contradict his guest in any case; he lets him go on, he lets him travel. [ Thoreau ]

The tongue tells the thought of one man only, whereas the face expresses a thought of nature itself; so that every one is worth attentive observation, even though every one may not be worth talking to. [ Arthur Schopenhauer ]

Whatever may be the means, or whatever the more immediate end of any kind of art, all of it that is good agrees in this, that it is the expression of one soul talking to another, and is precious according to the greatness of the soul that utters it. [ Ruskin ]

Yorick sometime?, in his wild way of talking, would say that gravity was an arrant scoundrel, and, he would add, of the most dangerous kind, too, because a sly one; and that he verily believed more honest well-meaning people were bubbled out of their goods and money by it in one twelvemonth than by pocket-picking and shop-lifting in seven. [ Sterne ]

People are always talking about originality; but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon us; and this goes on to the end. And after all, what can we call our own, except energy, strength, and will? If I could give an account of all that I owe to great predecessors and contemporaries, there would be but a small balance in my favor. [ Goethe ]

talking in Scrabble®

The word talking is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 12

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters talking:

TALKING
(101 = 51 + 50)
TALKING
(101 = 51 + 50)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

talking

 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word talking

TALKING
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TALKING
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TALKING
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TALKING
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TALKING
(65 = 15 + 50)
TALKING
(64 = 14 + 50)
TALKING
(64 = 14 + 50)
TALKING
(64 = 14 + 50)

The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In talking

TALKING
(101 = 51 + 50)
TALKING
(101 = 51 + 50)
TALKING
(98 = 48 + 50)
TALKING
(92 = 42 + 50)
TALKING
(89 = 39 + 50)
TALKING
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talking in Words With Friends™

The word talking is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 15

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters talking:

TALKING
(122 = 87 + 35)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

talking

 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word talking

TALKING
(122 = 87 + 35)
TALKING
(116 = 81 + 35)
TALKING
(110 = 75 + 35)
TALKING
(110 = 75 + 35)
TALKING
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TALKING
(51 = 16 + 35)
TALKING
(51 = 16 + 35)
TALKING
(50 = 15 + 35)

The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In talking

TALKING
(122 = 87 + 35)
TALKING
(116 = 81 + 35)
TALKING
(110 = 75 + 35)
TALKING
(110 = 75 + 35)
TALKING
(104 = 69 + 35)
TALKING
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Words within the letters of talking

2 letter words in talking (8 words)

3 letter words in talking (17 words)

5 letter words in talking (3 words)

6 letter words in talking (1 word)

7 letter words in talking (1 word)

talking + 1 blank (3 words)

talking + 2 blanks (4 words)

Words containing the sequence talking

Words that start with talking (1 word)

Words with talking in them (4 words)

Word Growth involving talking

Shorter words in talking

in kin king

ta talk

Longer words containing talking

backtalking

doubletalking

fasttalking

outtalking

overtalking

peptalking

smalltalking

stalking crosstalking

stalking deerstalking deerstalkings

stalking stalkingly

stalking stalkings deerstalkings

undertalking

uptalking