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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



... the girl before him with new interest. Out of her chatter he had at last garnered one important fact. His mind, trained to seize upon the vital and instantly discard the inconsequential, clutched the bit of information, and turned it over. From the first Carroll had scouted the idea that the dead man's fiancee might ...
— Midnight • Octavus Roy Cohen
... rather be out in the country where men still wear guns, where the sky isn't stained with filthy coal smoke, where there's an horizon wide enough to breathe in, where there's man-talk instead of this damned chatter over tea-cups—" ...
— Trailin'! • Max Brand
... responded the Chilians, and a second later the Gatling in the bows began to chatter out its deadly message, while the seamen rapidly loaded and fired their rifles, in the hope of destroying the infernal machine before it could reach the Blanco Encalada. But, try as they might, it seemed impossible ...
— Under the Chilian Flag - A Tale of War between Chili and Peru • Harry Collingwood
... to get me out of court one of these days, squire," muttered Potts, "and so will you too, Master James Device.—A day of reckoning will come for both—heavy reckoning. Ugh! ugh!" he added, shivering, "how my teeth chatter!" ...
— The Lancashire Witches - A Romance of Pendle Forest • William Harrison Ainsworth
... from under the Great Rock into the beautiful bay, and was promptly boarded by a few gentlemen of effusive manners who were greatly concerned about the health of Captain S——. The latter requested them to cease their chatter and ...
— Looking Seaward Again • Walter Runciman


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