Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: chatter
IPA transcription: [tʃ'ætɚ]
Pronunciations of chatter
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noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: yak, yack, yakety-yak, chatter, cackle
    Meaning: noisy talk
verb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: chatter, click
    Meaning: click repeatedly or uncontrollably; "Chattering teeth"
  • Synonyms: chatter
    Meaning: cut unevenly with a chattering tool
  • Synonyms: chew_the_fat, shoot_the_breeze, chat, confabulate, confab, chitchat, chit-chat, chatter, chaffer, natter, gossip, jaw, claver, visit
    Meaning: talk socially without exchanging too much information; "the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze"
  • Synonyms: chatter, piffle, palaver, prate, tittle-tattle, twaddle, clack, maunder, prattle, blab, gibber, tattle, blabber, gabble
    Meaning: speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
Usage examples
  • So the chatter was all on her side.
  • 'That it is', said another; 'I freeze so, that my teeth chatter.'
  • At ten minutes after the hour the buzz and chatter stopped abruptly and every face was turned, every neck craned toward the door.
  • Coils and streamers of smoke floated about among the trees, and suddenly a gray squirrel hopped out on a bough and began to chatter wildly.
  • At sunset parrots and monkeys resume their chatter for a season, and then give way to the noiseless flight of innumerable bats chasing the hawk-moth and beetle.
  • He will chatter about things refined and spiritual and godlike like himself, and he and the men who herd with him will calmly adulterate the commodities they put upon the market and which annually kill tens of thousands of babies and young children.
  • Under cover of the chatter, joking and laughter, while they were changing their clothes in the dressing room of the gymnasium, Grant, observing the dejection Springer could not hide to save himself, again uttered some friendly words of encouragement.
  • The Seminary playground was so noisy with chatter and screams of joy, that it was impossible to remember all the games we played; and later the dining-room and its offerings were so surprising and so beautifully decorated that the sight nearly deprived me of my appetite.
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