Chatter: Definition and part of speech

Chatter

  1. n. Noise made by collision of the teeth, as in shivering.
  2. v. i. To utter sounds which somewhat resemble language, but are inarticulate and indistinct.
  3. v. i. To talk idly, carelessly, or with undue rapidity; to jabber; to prate.
  4. v. i. To make a noise by rapid collisions.
  5. v. t. To utter rapidly, idly, or indistinctly.
  6. n. Sounds like those of a magpie or monkey; idle talk; rapid, thoughtless talk; jabber; prattle.
  7. The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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