clitter-clattern.
Alternating repetition of clattering noise; garrulous talk, tittle-tattle.
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the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > [noun] > chatter
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chatter-chitter1711
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whitter-whatter1805
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psilologya1834
chin-music1834
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chatter1851
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yacker1882
talkee1885
chelp1891
chattermag1895
whitter1897
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clatfart1913
jive1928
logorrhœa1935
waffle1937
yackety-yacking1953
yack1958
yackety-yack1958
motormouth1976
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > repeated sound or succession of sounds > [noun] > clattering
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clutter-clutter1691
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1535 D. Lindsay Satyre 616 Was nevir sene sic wind and rane Nor of Schipmen sic clitter clatter.
1578 T. Lupton All for Money (1851) 163 You may see, sir, olde women have much clitter clatter.
a1689 W. Cleland Coll. Poems (1697) 103 Shall all your while Be spent in idle clitter clatter.
1722 A. Ramsay 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.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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