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Tags: <word-request>
Title: Word to describe "to talk excitedly about something"?
Question: Is there a word for "to talk excitedly about something"? I'm sure there's a word for that. But  Thesaurus.com  didn't give me the answer.  Example sentence:   Mary took John to the place where they sold the banana splits she'd  been ______ for the past few days.

Answers:
sents: text: How about rave ?
text: From M-W, Definition of rave raved; raving intransitive verb 1 c : to talk with extreme enthusiasm &bullet; raved about its beauty Using the given example, Mary took John to the place where they sold the banana splits she'd been raving about for the past few days.
text: Though I believe rave suggests that she's already tried it and now she wants to show John that it's great.
text: A somewhat informal alternative is hype .
text: From Dictionary.com, hype verb (used with object), hyped, hyping. 2.
text: to create interest in by flamboyant or dramatic methods; promote or publicize showily: Using the example, Mary took John to the place where they sold the banana splits she'd been hyping for the past few days.
answer_details: author: ell.stackexchange.com/users/36187/Em.
score: 14
sents: text: gushɡʌʃ/verb 2.
text: Speak or write effusively or with exaggerated enthusiasm.
text: Mary took John to the place where they sold the banana splits
text: she'd
text: been gushing over for the past few days.
answer_details: author: ell.stackexchange.com/users/40227/Sam
score: 8
sents: text: The first word that sprang to mind, on seeing the title, was jabber verb
text: [NO OBJECT] Talk in a rapid, excited, and often incomprehensible way.
text: ‘he
text: jabbered on about football’ noun Rapid, excited, and often incomprehensible speech.
text: Source https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/jabber
answer_details: author: ell.stackexchange.com/users/6477/Mawg says reinstate Monica
score: 5
sents: text: How about enthuse
text: Express eager enjoyment, interest, or approval regarding something. https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/enthuse
text: Example: Mary took John to the place where they sold the banana splits she'd been enthusing about for the past few days
answer_details: author: ell.stackexchange.com/users/21275/GeoffAtkins
score: 4
sents: text: You can say ".........she'd been raving about.......".
text: Enthusing about is also possible.
answer_details: author: ell.stackexchange.com/users/9259/Khan
score: 3
sents: text: My first thought was blather .
text: to talk foolishly at length —often used with on
text: So Mary took John to the place where they sold the banana splits she'd been blathering on about for the past few days.
answer_details: author: ell.stackexchange.com/users/51258/user51258
score: 0
sents: text: To bubble.
text: Mary took John to the place where they sold the banana splits she'd been bubbling about for the past few days.
answer_details: author: ell.stackexchange.com/users/51288/Jonathan
score: 0
sents: text: Extolling?
text: To bless, carol, celebrate, emblazon, exalt, glorify, hymn, laud, magnify, praise, resound
text: Does change depending on how Mary feels about her own enthusiasm.
text: Jabbering, going on about, blithering etc implies she's aware
text: it's annoying.
text: Or more something that John might say about her mentioning it so much.
text: Raving is more neutral or enthusiastic.
text: And something like extolling feels quite character dependent, if she's that sort of person...
answer_details: author: ell.stackexchange.com/users/110441/user110441
score: 0

Summary of the answers:
To hype, gush, to blather, to rave, to enthuse, to extol and to bubble are all suggestions in this context.
Some words that could be used in this context are: "rave", "hype", "jabber", "enthuse", "blather", "bubble", "extoll".