Chatter

Definition: Chatter

Chatter

Noun

1. Noisy talk.

2. The rapid series of noises made by the parts of a machine.

3. The high-pitched continuing noise made by animals (birds or monkeys).

Verb

1. Click repeatedly or uncontrollably, as of teeth.

2. Cut unevenly with a chattering tool.

3. Chew the fat; shoot the breeze.

4. Speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly.

5. Make noise as if chattering away: "The magpies were chattering in the trees".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "chatter" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Electrical Engineering

Food & Agriculture

Mechanical Engineering

Mining

Multilingual Slang

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Chatter

Fear

Make one's flesh creep, make one's hair stand on end, make one's blood run cold, make one's teeth chatter; take away one's breath, stop one's breath; make one tremble;

Loquacity

Verb: be loquacious; Adjective: talk glibly, pour forth, patter; prate, palaver, prose, chatter, prattle, clack, jabber, jaw; blather, blatter, blether; rattle, rattle on; twaddle, babble, gabble; outtalk; talk oneself out of breath, talk oneself hoarse; expatiate; (speak at length); gossip; (converse); din in the ears; (repeat); talk at random, talk nonsense; be hoarse with talking.

Jaw; gabble; jabber, chatter; prate, prattle, cackle, clack; twaddle, rattle; caquet, caquetterie; blabber, bavardage, bibble-babble, gibble-gabble; small talk; (converse).

Refrigeration

Verb: cool, fan, refrigerate, refresh, ice; congeal, freeze, glaciate; benumb, starve, pinch, chill, petrify, chill to the marrow, regelate, nip, cut, pierce, bite, make one's teeth chatter,

Crosswords: Chatter

Cut the chatter, Red 2. (Star Wars; writing credit: George Lucas)

Always the same narrow people, the same mindless chatter. I felt like I was standing at a great precipice, with no one to pull me back, no one who cared or even noticed (Titanic; writing credit: James Cameron)

Now, listen, boyfriend, you have a nice line of chatter but how do I know you care for me in a big way (The Hollywood Revue of 1929; writing credit: Al Boasberg; Robert E. Hopkins)

I'm with him. Keep the chatter down (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

Spittin' that booty chatter (Ugly; performing artist: Bubba Sparxxx)

Chatter Street Killer (1988)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Bird Sounds: How and Why Birds Sing, Call, Chatter, and Screech (reference)

• Blade Chatter (reference)

• Chatter With the Angels (Growing Minds With Music, 8) [ABRIDGED] (reference)

• Chitter Chatter (Chatterbooks) (reference)

• Idol Chatter (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Cutting Horse Chatter (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Music

• More Than Idle Chatter (reference)

• Chatter With The Angels (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "chatter": chatter like a magpie ♦ Chatter mark ♦ chatter teeth ♦ idle chatter ♦ loud chatter ♦ make one's teeth chatter ♦ monkey chatter. Additional references.

Beginning with "chatter": chatter-box, chatter-filled, chatter-head, chatter-up.

Ending with "chatter": chitter-chatter.

Albanian

cicëroj (Carol, chirp, chirrup, tweet, twitter), cicërimë (Carol, chirp, chirrup, peep, tweet, twitter, warble), cicërij (Carol, chirp, chirrup), kërcëlloj (clang, clank, gnash, grate, grind), kërcëllimë (crackling, gnashing, grinding), flas llafe, dërdëllitje (gibber, gibberish, giber, prate, prattle, talk shop, verbiage, yak, yapping), dërdëllit (babble, clack, gab, gibber, harp on, jabber, prattle, yap), dërdëllisje (gibber, gibberish, giber, prate, prattle, talk shop, verbiage, yak, yapping), dërdëllis (babble, clack, gab, gibber, harp on, harp on the same string, jabber, prattle, yap), bërbëlitje (gabble), bërbëlit (gabble). (various references)

Arabic 

‏هذر (gabble, garrulity, gibber, logorrhea, loquacity, palaver, patter, prate, prolixity, twaddle, twitter), ‏لفظ بغير وضوح, ‏لغو (chat, chitchat, crack, logorrhea, loquacity, moonshine, palaver, slipslop, small talk, tittle tattle, twitter), ‏لغا (crack, twitter, yap), ‏تتذبذب بسرعة, ‏تصطك, ‏زقزقة (cheep, chirp, chirrup, peep, pipe, squeak), ‏زقزق (cheep, chirp, chirrup, peep, pip, pipe, squeak), ‏إصطكاك الأسنان, ‏ثرثرة (babble, blab, blabber, boastfulness, breeze, cackle, chat, clatter, gab, gabble, garrulity, gas, gibberish, jabber, jactitation, logorrhea, loquacity, patter, prate, prattle, rattle, talkativeness, tattler, tittle tattle, twaddle, yap), ‏ثرثر (babble, blab, blabber, bluster, clack, clatter, crack, gabble, gas, gibber, give oneself airs, gossip, jabber, jangle, jaw, natter, palaver, patter, prate, prattle, quack, rap, rumble, shoot one's mouth off, smatter, talk, tattle, twaddle, twitter, yap), ‏بقبقة (bubble, gurgle, splutter, talkativeness). (various references)

Bulgarian 

ромоня (burble, purl), ромон (babble, burble, murmur, purl, ripple, susurration), раздрънквам (bleat, peddle, retail, spill the beans), тракане (clack, clank, clatter, pitter patter, ratatat, rat-a-tat, rat-tat), тракам (clank, clatter, pink, rattle, spatter), кряскане (vociferation), кряскам (honk, whoop), бърборене (gab, prate, prattle, rattle, tattle), бъбря (burble, prate, prattle, rap, talk, tittle tattle, yarn). (various references)

Chinese 

聊天 (Chatted, Chatting), 嚕 (grumble), 喋喋不休 . (various references)

Czech

cvakat, cvakání (snap), tlachat (blab, cackle, gas, jaw, palaver, talk, tittle tattle, waffle, yap), klábosit (chat, gossip, jaw, jazz, natter, talk), klábosení (chitchat, gossip, jaw, natter), jektat, jektání, drkotat, brebentit (gabble, gabble away, jabber, yap), brebentìní (gabble), žvatlat (babble, gurgle, prattle), žvatlání (gurgle), žvanìní (cackle, chitchat, claptrap, double talk, flapdoodle, flubdub, gab, gas, piffle, prate, prattle, rigmarole, tattle, twaddle, waffle, wind), štìbetat (cackle, waffle). (various references)

Danish

snakke (chat, gossip, speak, talk). (various references)

Dutch

praten (chat, speak, talk), keuvelen (chat), babbelen (chat). (various references)

Esperanto

babili (chat). (various references)

Faeroese

tosa (chat, speak, talk), práta (chat, converse). (various references)

Farsi 

پچ پچ کردن (Whisper), تندوناشمرده سخن گفتن (Gibber), تندتندحرف زدن (Patter). (various references)

Finnish

yhteyksien nopea sulkeminen ja avaaminen, värinä (fibrillation, flicker, quiver, shiver, trembling, tremor, vibration), värähtely (vibration), lörpötellä (babble, blab, chat), kalista (clatter, rattle), kalina (clatter, rattle). (various references)

French

bavarder (chat), babiller (chat). (various references)

German

schwatzen (babble, blab, blather, cackle, chat, drool, gab, gabbings, go on, gossip, jabber, jabber away, natter, patter, prattle, talk, talk away, to blab, to chatter, to twaddle, twaddle, visit), schnattern (cackle, gabble, gaggle, gibber, natter, quack, to cackle, to chatter, to gabble, to gaggle, yackety-yak, yak), rattern (clatter, rattle), plappern (babble, blab, burble, gabble, jabber, jabber away, jabbering, pratt, prattle, quack, sputter, to burble, to chatter, to jabber, to sputter), klappern (bat, clack, clang, clatter, click, rattle, rattling, rattling noise, snip, to chatter), geplapper (babble, babbling, chattiness, jabber, jabbering, patter, prattle, rap). (various references)

Greek 

φλυαρώ (babble, blabber, gab, gabble, gibber, gossip, jabber, palaver, prate, rattle away, tattle, tittle tattle, twaddle, waffle, yammer, yap, yatter). (various references)

Hebrew 

למלמל (babble, buzz, mumble, murmur, mutter, splutter, sputter, stammer), לת�'ר (bargain, barter, trade), לפטפט (babble, blather, chat, gabble, gossip, jabber, palaver, prate, prattle, shoot ones mouth off), פטפוט (babble, chat, garrulity, prattle, small talk), פטפטת (garrulity, prattle), � קישות (patter). (various references)

Hungarian

csicsergés (Chirm, chirp, chirping, chirrup, twitter). (various references)

Icelandic

masa (chat, gossip), blaðra (chat, gossip). (various references)

Indonesian

cakap-cakap (prattle), omongan, gemeletak (shiver), geligis (quiver), berkoar. (various references)

Italian

chiacchierare (blab, chat, gossip, natter, prate, rap, talk, tattle, twaddle, visit), vibrazione (flicker, flutter, jar, throb, twang, vibration). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

空談 (gossip), 無駄口 (idle talk), 冗言 (useless words). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

くう� �" (gossip), む� ぐち (idle talk), じょう�'�" (1st quarter of moon, crescent moon, maximum, upper limit, useless words). (various references)

Korean 

지꺼림. (various references)

Malay

mengobrol (chat). (various references)

Manx

tutlerys (chat, gossip, tale-bearing, tale-telling, tattle, tittle-tattle), goaill cowag (chat), cabbaragh (bragging, chatty, gabbling, gibbering, muttering, prattler, quibble, quibbler), beealeraght (babble, chit-chat, talk, talkativeness). (various references)

Norwegian

skravle (chat, gab, gossip, jaw). (various references)

Pig Latin

atterchay.(various references)

Polish

gawędzić (chat). (various references)

Portuguese

vibração (beat, flutter, pulsation, shake, thrill, throb, tremor, vibrancy). (various references)

Romanian

ciripi (Carol, chirp, chirrup, peep, pipe, twitter, warble), ciripit (Carol, chirp, chirrup, garrulity, lay, peep, twitter, warble), clãnţãni (bang, clank, click, clink, rattle, tremble), clãnţãnit (snap), cotcodãci (cackle, chuck, chuckle, clack), flecãri (babble, blab, blether, cackle, gossip, humbug, palaver, prate, prattle, rattle, talk, tattle, tittle tattle), ţãcãnit (barmy on the crumpet, click, crack-brained, kook, loony, rattle, rattling, snap), bârfi (backbite, calumniate, cast a slur upon, decry, defame, gossip, malign, put a slur upon, revile, slander, slur, smear, talk, talk scandal), bleotocãri (fiddle-faddle, gabble, wish-wash), ţãcãni (click, rattle, snap), flecãrealã (babble, cackle, chit chat, gabble, gossip, patter, prate, prattle, talk, tattle, tittle tattle), trancana (chat), murmur (babble, babbling, Bicker, brawl, garrulity, hum, moan, mumbling, murmur, mutter, prattle, rhubarb, ripple, rustle, rustling, warble), murmura (babble, Bicker, brawl, breathe, croak, growl, grumble, gurgle, kick, moan, mumble, murmur, mutter, Pearl, prattle, purl, ripple, round, rustle, sough, warble, whisper), pãlãvrãgealã (chit chat, crack, gabble, prate, prattle, rigmarole), pãlãvrãgi (babble, confabulate, crack, gossip, humbug, jabber, prate, twaddle), rãpãi (drive, Pat, patter, rattle, splash), sporovãi (chat, drivel, grind, jabber), sporovãialã (jabber, jaw, patter), susur (babble, brawl, gurgle, murmur, prattle, ripple, warble, whisper), susura (babble, Bicker, brawl, gurgle, hum, murmur, Pearl, prattle, purl, ripple, swish), dârdâi (flurry, flutter, quake, tremble). (various references)

Russian 

стучать;болтать болтовня, стучать зубами, щебетать (chirp, tweet), щебетание (chirp), журчание (murmur, purling), болтовня (badinage, banter, blether, cackle, chat, chitchat, clatter, confabulation, footle, gab, gammon, gas, gassing, gossip, gup, hubble bubble, jive, mag, patter, piffle, rattle, spiels, tattle, tittle tattle, twaddle, waffle, wish-wash), болтать (blab, cank, chat, chin, confabulate, cosher, gab, haver, jabber, natter, prate, prattle, rattle, shoot the breeze, tattle, twitter, witter), дрожать (dither, dodder, flutter, jar, jitter, palpitate, quake, shake, shiver, shivered, thrill, tingle, tremble), дребезжать (jar, rasp, rattle), дребезжание (rasp, rattle). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

cvokotati (shiver), cvokotanje, torokati (gabble, prate, rattle, tittle tattle), torokanje (gabble, palaver, tittle tattle), ćaskanje (chat, small talk, tea-table conversation). (various references)

Spanish

charlar (chat, chin, gab, gas, gossip, jaw, natter, prate, prattle, shoot the bull, talk, visit, yap), charla (babble, causerie, chat, chitchat, clack, derision, gab, gabble, gossip, natter, prate, rattle, small talk, talk, tattle, tittletattle, yap). (various references)

Swedish

tala (say, speak, talk), sladdra (gossip, lurch, tattle), skallra tänder, skakning (jar, joggle, jolt, jounce, judder, quake, rock, rumble-tumble, shake, shaking, trembling). (various references)

Turkish

laklak etmek (chew the fat, chew the rag, clack), konuşup durmak (go on), konuşkan kimse (chatterbox, communicator, talker), gevezelik etmek (babble, blab, cackle, chat, clack, gabble, gossip, natter, prate, prattle, tattle), gıcırdatmak (gnash, grate, grind, grit, jar, scrape, screech), dırdır (grumbling, jaw, quack, rattle), aptalca ve çok konuşmak, çene çalmak (chat, chew the fat, chew the rag, chinwag, chitchat, gossip, have a gossip, jaw, prattle, visit), çatırdamak (clack, clash, crack, crackle, creak, crepitate, make a crackling noise, scrunch, snap). (various references)

Turkmen 

warsaky (gossip), samahylamak, madyrdamak, gygyrmak (gab). (various references)

Ukrainian

клацання (clabber, clang, click, fillip, smack), джерготання, дзюрчання (babble, babbling, bickering, murmuring, purl, ripple), дзюрчати (babble, gurgle, murmur, ripple, whimper), дрижати (didder, dodder, flicker, quake, quiver, shiver, tingle, tremble, wabble, waver, wobble), балаканина (babble, causerie, chirrup, chit chat), базікання (babble, babbling, blab, blather, blether, bunkum, burble, cackle, chit chat, clatter, flubdub, gabble, gossip, jabber, piffle, prate, spiel, talk, tattle, tittle tattle, tootle, twaddle, twitter, waffle, wind, yak-yak), базікати (babble, blab, blather, burble, cackle, chin, clatter, expatiate, footle, gab, gabble, gossip, haver, jabber, natter, parleyvoo, piffle, prate, spiel, tattle, tittle tattle, twitter, waffle, wag, wiggle-waggle, yak, yak-yak, yarn), вибрація, деренчання, гелгіт, стукіт (clash, clatter, conk, rataplan, smash), клацати (champ, clabber, clang, click), теревенити (chat, chin), цокотіти, щебетання (chirp, chirrup, twitter), щебетати (babble, chirm, chirp, chirrup, quaver, tweet, twitter), розбовкувати (prate), скрекотання (chirr), скрекотати (chirr), стукати (beat, clatter, dab, knock, rap, thrash, thresh, thunder, wap), вібрувати (oscillate, pulsate, pulse, shimmy, tremble, vibrate). (various references)

Vietnamese 

tiếng hót líu lo (chirm). (various references)

Welsh

cogor (caw, chattering, croak), clebran (babble, gossip, tattle), clebar (gossip, idle talk, tattle), trydar (chirp). (various references)

convicia, convicio, effutio, garriens, garrient, garrio. (various references)

snacken. (various references)

chittern. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "chatter": chatterbox, chatterboxes, chattered, chatterer, chatterers, chattering, chatters, chattery. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Chatter" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Catter, chater, Chatoor, Chattan, chatte, chattery, chatteu, Chatti, Chattra, Chayter, Chetta, Chettri, chitter, chittes, chuter, chutter, dhater, kat-ta, Khatir, Khatori, Khattak, Schechter, Schotter. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: ratchet.

-1 letter: hatter, rachet, threat.

-2 letters: caret, carte, cater, chare, chart, cheat, chert, crate, earth, hater, heart, ratch, rathe, reach, react, recta, retch, tacet, tache, tater, teach, tecta, tetra, theca, theta, trace, tract, treat.

-3 letters: ache, acre, arch, care, cart, cate, char, chat, each, eath, etch, haet, hare, hart, hate, hear, heat, race, rate, rath.

+1 letter: attacher, catheter, chatters, chattery, chattier, ratchets, reattach, tetrarch, thatcher, theatric, theocrat, trachyte.

+2 letters: architect, athrocyte, attachers, catheters, charlotte, chattered, chatterer, clathrate, entrechat, ratcheted, tetrarchs, tetrarchy, thatchers, thatchier, theatrics, theocrats, tracheate, trachytes, trenchant.

+3 letters: anthracite, architects, arithmetic, athrocytes, charlottes, chatterbox, chatterers, chattering, clathrates, entrechats, haircutter, hematocrit, ratcheting, reattached, reattaches, rheostatic, starchiest, tachometer, technocrat, tetrachord, tetrarchic, theatrical, theocratic, tracheated, tracheitis, trochanter, watchtower.