What does "chatter" mean?
Chatter: To talk idly, carelessly, or with undue rapidity; to jabber; to prate. To tame a shrew, and charm her chattering tongue. Shak.
Additional senses
- 2.To make a noise by rapid collisions. With chattering teeth, and bristling hair upright. Dryden.
- 3.To utter rapidly, idly, or indistinctly. Begin his witless note apace to chatter. Spenser.
- 4.Sounds like those of a magpie or monkey; idle talk; rapid, thoughtless talk; jabber; prattle. Your words are but idle and empty chatter. Longfellow.
- 5.Noise made by collision of the teeth, as in shivering.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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