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▪ I. yatter, v. colloq. (orig. Sc. dial.).|ˈjætə(r)|
[Imitative, perh. after yammer v. + chatter v.; cf. also natter v.]
intr. To talk idly and incessantly; to chatter, or gossip; to gabble; to complain peevishly. Freq. const. (on) (about something or at someone). Occas. trans.
1825Jamieson (Suppl.) II. 703/2 She's ay yatter-yatterin, and never devaulds. 1831Gasometer 457 She yattered about an ugly man that cam' in a fiddle case. 1896P. A. Graham Red Scaur viii. 121 Grace likes to yatter about the days when she bondaged for him. 1919J. Buchan Mr. Standfast i. vi. 122 No company but a wheen ignorant Hielanders that yatter Gawlic. 1942N. Streatfeild I ordered Table for Six 203, I don't like to yatter about flying much. 1950‘P. Woodruff’ Island of Chamba 124 As long as the British yatter on about going and don't go, things are bound to get worse in India. 1963J. N. Harris Weird World of Wes Beattie (1964) v. 62 This dear old Betty was yattering at me on Sunday morning when I was hung over to the eyeballs. 1977J. I. M. Stewart Madonna of Astrolabe ii. 48 The confounded thing might tumble around our ears while we yattered.
Hence ˈyattering vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1859J. Watson Living Bards of Border 193, I winna get up, sae yer yatterin's vain. 1878R. Ford Hamespun Days 105 A thrawart, yatterin', blatterin' mither. 1935D. Rorie Lum Hat 58 Ta'en in By a yatterin' lump o' original sin. 1972Hawick News 7 Jan. 7/4 Their yatterin', like the stream, goes on for ever.
▪ II. ˈyatter, n. colloq. (orig. Sc. dial.).
[See prec.]
Idle talk; incessant chatter or gossip.
1827J. Watt Poems 72 Gin ane hae walth to keep him lievin', Nae cravin' body's yater deevin'. 1898J. Buchan John Burnet of Barns ii. ix. 188 The shrill yatter of the fishwives. 1935F. Niven Flying Years i. 10 Any yatter of human follies and failings. 1955E. Pound Section: Rock-Drill xciv. 95 To the Odes to escape abstract yatter. 1978Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 28 May 3/4 No one in the Brisbane Valley any longer believes the tourist yatter given out by Government..circles. |