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noun

Chattering n. 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.

verb

Chatter v. t. To utter rapidly, idly, or indistinctly. "Begin his witless note apace to chatter."

Chatter v. i. (past & past part. chattered; pres. part. chattering)

To utter sounds which somewhat resemble language, but are inarticulate and indistinct. "The jaw makes answer, as the magpie chatters."

To talk idly, carelessly, or with undue rapidity; to jabber; to prate. "To tame a shrew, and charm her chattering tongue."

To make a noise by rapid collisions. "With chattering teeth, and bristling hair upright."

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Etymology of 'Chattering'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Chattering" Quotes from Famous Books

... door and I went into the drawing-room, where I crouched before a blazing fire with chattering teeth and benumbed feet and hands. I was alone. Doria had taken a faint turn for the better that morning and Barbara had run down to Northlands for the day. It was just as well she had gone, I thought. I should have a few hours to compose ...

— Jaffery • William J. Locke

... you are chattering about, Owen, but you look as if you expected me to ask, "Why?" Anything ...

— Hugo - A Fantasia on Modern Themes • Arnold Bennett

... provided with little ponds are intelligent seals and families of otters, with their elegant fur coats always clean and in order; and down by the shore of the stream and the large lake a loud chattering is made by the numerous web-footed creatures and long-legged waders. Here are ducks from Barbary and the American tropics, wild-geese from every clime, and swimming gracefully and silently in the clear water are swans—black, gray, and white—that glide up to the summer-houses ...

— Harper's Young People, September 28, 1880 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various

... held, except that certain fees thereby find their way into the pocket of the aforesaid coroner, which would otherwise not have done so. In short, such a coroner as I have in my eye may be compared to a great ape squatting on a corpse, furiously chattering and spitting at all around it; and I am glad that it hath at last had wit enough first to shut the door before proceeding to its ...

— Ten Thousand a-Year. Volume 1. • Samuel Warren

... had not yet reached the rancho. The leaves lay motionless under a dark and ominous calm; but the wild screams of many birds—the shrieks of the swans, the discordant notes of the frightened pea-fowl, the chattering of parrots as they sought the shelter of the thick olives in terrified flight—all betokened the speedy advent of some ...

— The Rifle Rangers • Captain Mayne Reid

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