chitter-chattern.v.
A. n.
= chatter n.1 Cf. chit-chat n.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > [noun] > chatter
chirma800
clappingc1386
glavera1400
clapa1420
clackc1440
blabc1460
clattera1500
babble?a1525
babblery1532
pratery1533
clitter-clatter1535
by-talk?1551
prattle1555
prittle-prattle1556
twittle-twattle1565
cacquet1567
prate?1574
prattlement1579
babblement1595
gibble-gabble1600
gabble1602
twattlea1639
tolutiloquence1656
pratement1657
gaggle1668
leden1674
cackle1676
twit-twat1677
clash1685
chit-chat1710
chatter-chitter1711
chitter-chatter1712
palavering1732
hubble-bubble1735
palaver1748
rattle1748
gum1751
mag1778
gabber1780
gammon1781
gash1787
chattery1789
gabber1792
whitter-whatter1805
yabble1808
clacket1812
talky-talky1812
potter1818
yatter1827
blue streak1830
gabblement1831
psilologya1834
chin-music1834
patter1841
jaw1842
chatter1851
brabble1861
tongue-work1866
yacker1882
talkee1885
chelp1891
chattermag1895
whitter1897
burble1898
yap1907
clatfart1913
jive1928
logorrhœa1935
waffle1937
yackety-yacking1953
yack1958
yackety-yack1958
motormouth1976
1712 Lady Strafford in Wentworth Papers (1883) 283 You desired all the Chitter Chatter I heard.
1877 B. Disraeli in W. F. Monypenny & G. E. Buckle Life Disraeli (1920) VI. 116 He did not want anything: only chitter-chatter.
1895 R. Kipling Second Jungle Bk. 193 Mowgli..imitated perfectly the sharp chitter-chatter of Chikai, the leaping rat of the Dekkan.
1908 Daily Chron. 3 Aug. 3/1 What is the use of smart women's chitter-chatter without their dresses?
1928 Observer 19 Feb. 10/1 The empty, drawing-room chitter-chatter plays.
1940 F. Stark Diary in Winter in Arabia 29 Dec. 74 ‘We exhaust you with our chitter-chatter,’ they say politely.
B. v.
transitive. = chatter v. 2b.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > utter in a chattering manner [verb (transitive)]
cacklec1230
chattera1250
clapc1315
jangle1377
blabberc1380
trattlea1425
pratea1475
chat1483
prattlea1500
prittle-prattlea1555
gabble1566
blatter?1567
gaggle1577
clacket1579
knap1581
prittle1583
clack1590
volley1591
tattle1593
prabble1603
out-babble1649
garrulate1656
gabber?1661
chime1697
spiel1904
chitter-chatter1928
1928 Cosmopolitan Aug. 43/1 He never tired of the Esperanto of the ticker tape..chittering chattering fortune or disaster.
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