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ˌclitter-ˈclatter, n.
[Reduplication of clatter.]
Alternating repetition of clattering noise; garrulous talk, tittle-tattle.
1535Lyndesay Satyre 616 Was nevir sene sic wind and rane Nor of Schipmen sic clitter clatter. 1578Lupton All for Money (1851) 163 You may see, sir, olde women have much clitter clatter. 1697W. Cleland Poems 103 (Jam.) Shall all your while Be spent in idle clitter-clatter. 1722Ramsay Monk & Miller's Wife 73. 1884 St. James's Gaz. 13 June 4/2 Touch a bag of bones and you are deafened by the clitter-clatter. |