Word Meanings - CHATTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Etym: 1. To utter sounds which somewhat resemble language, but are inarticulate and indistinct. The jaw makes answer, as the magpie chatters. Wordsworth. 2. To talk idly, carelessly, or with undue rapidity; to jabber; to prate. To tame a shrew,

Additional info about word: CHATTER

Etym: 1. To utter sounds which somewhat resemble language, but are inarticulate and indistinct. The jaw makes answer, as the magpie chatters. Wordsworth. 2. To talk idly, carelessly, or with undue rapidity; to jabber; to prate. To tame a shrew, and charm her chattering tongue. Shak. 3. To make a noise by rapid collisions. With chattering teeth, and bristling hair upright. Dryden.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CHATTER)

• Garrulity
• Verbosity
• loquacity
• talkativeness
• chatter

Related words: (words related to CHATTER)

• LOQUACITY
  The habit or practice of talking continually or excessively; inclination to talk too much; talkativeness; garrulity. Too great loquacity and too great taciturnity by fits. Arbuthnot.
• CHATTERATION
  The act or habit of chattering.
• GARRULITY
  Talkativeness; loquacity.
• VERBOSITY
  The quality or state of being verbose; the use of more words than are necessary; prolixity; wordiness; verbiage. The worst fault, by far, is the extreme diffuseness and verbosity of his style. Jeffrey.
• CHATTERING
  The act or habit of talking idly or rapidly, or of making inarticulate sounds; the sounds so made; noise made by the collision of the teeth; chatter.
• CHATTER
  Etym: 1. To utter sounds which somewhat resemble language, but are inarticulate and indistinct. The jaw makes answer, as the magpie chatters. Wordsworth. 2. To talk idly, carelessly, or with undue rapidity; to jabber; to prate. To tame a shrew,
• CHATTERER
  A bird of the family Ampelidæ -- so called from its monotonous note. The Bohemion chatterer inhabits the arctic regions of both continents. In America the cedar bird is a more common species. See Bohemian chatterer, and Cedar bird. (more info)
• CHATTER MARK
  One of the fine undulations or ripples which are formed on the surface of work by a cutting tool which chatters. A short crack on a rock surface planed smooth by a glacier.