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Chatter   /tʃˈætər/   Listen
Chatter

noun
1.
Noisy talk.  Synonyms: cackle, yack, yak, yakety-yak.
2.
The rapid series of noises made by the parts of a machine.  Synonym: chattering.
3.
The high-pitched continuing noise made by animals (birds or monkeys).  Synonym: chattering.
verb
(past & past part. chattered; pres. part. chattering)
1.
Click repeatedly or uncontrollably.  Synonym: click.
2.
Cut unevenly with a chattering tool.
3.
Talk socially without exchanging too much information.  Synonyms: chaffer, chat, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, claver, confab, confabulate, gossip, jaw, natter, shoot the breeze, visit.
4.
Speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly.  Synonyms: blab, blabber, clack, gabble, gibber, maunder, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle.
5.
Make noise as if chattering away.



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"Chatter" Quotes from Famous Books



... attendant on him declare that his whole joy and pleasure was in the due and right performance of the praise of God and of divine service. The other days of less solemnity he passed not in sloth or vanities, not in banquetings or drunkenness, not in vain talk or other mischievous speech or chatter (all such he ever avoided in his lifetime and indeed used but very brief speech, of words tending to edification or profitable to others), but such days he passed not less diligently either in treating of the business of the realm with his council as need might require, or ...
— Henry the Sixth - A Reprint of John Blacman's Memoir with Translation and Notes • John Blacman
... of the other's stare at last chilled and quelled his chatter to an embarrassed silence. He realized that the object of his mild subterfuge ...
— The Lighted Match • Charles Neville Buck
... whose cheeks were suffused with a crimson flush, "what are you talking about, and how can you chatter ...
— The Youth of the Great Elector • L. Muhlbach
... the Oni is only a jolly little imp. The Japanese girls, on New Year's eve, throw handfuls of dried beans in every room of the house and cry, "In, with good luck; and out with you, Onis!" Yet they laugh merrily all the time. The Onis cannot speak, but they can chatter like monkeys. They often seem to be talking to ...
— Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks • William Elliot Griffis
... creatures breathing thoughtful breath. As has already been said, death takes away the commonplace of life. And positively, when one looks on the thousand and one poor, foolish, ignoble faces of this world, and listens to the chatter as poor and foolish as the faces, one, in order to have any proper respect for them, is forced to remember that solemnity of death, which is silently waiting. The foolishest person will look grand enough one day. The features are poor now, but the hottest tears and the most ...
— Dreamthorp - A Book of Essays Written in the Country • Alexander Smith


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