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chatter
1. noisy talk (Freq. 2) • Syn: yak, yack, yakety-yak, cackle • Derivationally related forms: cackle (for: cackle), yack (for: yack) • Hypernyms: talk, talking • Hyponyms: prate, prattle, idle talk, blether, chin music 2. the rapid series of noises made by the parts of a machine • Syn: chattering • Derivationally related forms: chatter (for: chattering) • Hypernyms: noise 3. the high-pitched continuing noise made by animals (birds or monkeys) • Syn: chattering • Derivationally related forms: chatter (for: chattering) • Hypernyms: noise
1. click repeatedly or uncontrollably (Freq. 1) - Chattering teeth • Syn: click • Hypernyms: sound, go • Verb Frames: - Something ----s 2. cut unevenly with a chattering tool (Freq. 1) • Derivationally related forms: chattering • Hypernyms: cut • Verb Frames: - Somebody ----s something 3. speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly (Freq. 1) • Syn: piffle, palaver, prate, tittle-tattle, twaddle, clack, maunder, prattle, blab, gibber, tattle, blabber, gabble • Derivationally related forms: gabble (for: gabble), blabber (for: blabber), prattler (for: prattle), prattle (for: prattle), twaddler (for: twaddle), twaddle (for: twaddle), tittle-tattle (for: tittle-tattle), prater (for: prate), prate (for: prate), palaver (for: palaver), piffle (for: piffle), chatterer • Hypernyms: talk, speak, utter, mouth, verbalize, verbalise • Hyponyms: babble, blather, smatter, blether, blither • Verb Frames: - Somebody ----s - Sam and Sue chatter 4. talk socially without exchanging too much information (Freq. 1) - the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze • Syn: chew the fat, shoot the breeze, chat, confabulate, confab, chitchat, chit-chat, chaffer, natter, gossip, jaw, claver, visit • Derivationally related forms: visitor (for: visit), gossip (for: gossip), chatterer, chitchat (for: chitchat), confabulation (for: confabulate), chat (for: chat), chit chat (for: chitchat), chit-chat (for: chitchat) • Hypernyms: converse, discourse • Hyponyms: shmooze, shmoose, schmooze, schmoose, jawbone • Verb Frames: - Somebody ----s - Sam and Sue chatter - Sam wants to chatter with Sue 5. make noise as if chattering away - The magpies were chattering in the trees • Derivationally related forms: chatterer, chattering • Hypernyms: talk, speak, utter, mouth, verbalize, verbalise • Verb Frames: - Something ----s - The birds chatter in the woods - The woods chatter with many kinds of birds
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