(verb) : garrĭo, īvi or ĭi, ītum, 4, Sanscr. gir, speech; Gr. γῆρυς, voice; Germ. girren, to coo; Engl. call; v. Georg Curtius Gr. Etym. p. 177
* To chatter, prate, chat, talk (cf. blatero).
* Lit. (class.): cum coram sumus et garrimus quicquid in buccam,Cic. Att. 12, 1, 2: cupiebam etiam nunc plura garrire,id. ib. 6, 2, 10: nugas,Plaut. Aul. 5, 21; id. Curc. 5, 2, 6: quidlibet,Hor. S. 1, 9, 13: aniles fabellas,id. ib. 2, 6, 77: libellos,id. ib. 1, 10, 41: aliquid in aurem,Mart. 5, 61, 3: garriet quoi neque pes umquam neque caput conpareat,will chatter nonsense,Plaut. Capt. 3, 4, 81.—Absol.: garris,Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 86; id. Heaut. 3, 2, 25; 4, 6, 19; id. Phorm. 1, 4, 33: garri modo,id. ib. 3, 2, 11: saeculis multis ante gymnasia inventa sunt, quam in his philosophi garrire coeperunt,Cic. de Or. 2, 5, 21; cf.: tanta est impunitas garriendi,id. N. D. 1, 38, 108.
* Transf., of frogs: meliusque ranae garriunt Ravennates,Mart. 3, 93, 8. Of the nightingale: lusciniae canticum adolescentiae garriunt,App. Flor. p. 258 (3, 17 fin.).

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