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单词 yatter
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Definition of yatter in English:

yatter

verb ˈjatəˈyadər
[no object]informal
  • Talk incessantly; chatter.

    dear old Betty was yattering at me on Sunday
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Probably I just realized I'd been yattering for a while, and stopped.
    • They'd gone back to their room, to yatter about sex under the covers in dim light and comfort.
    • But it's just one step too far in terms of yattering about work (you see, I natter about the trivial and the personalities, but never about the substance, and almost never about the policies).
    • Dolly yattered at them fiercely, in a non-discriminatory way.
    • In the meantime, let's stop yattering with utterly useless political pontification and attempt to affect one thing - a debate.
    • Since I had only spoken to him once all night, I knew exactly what he was yattering on about and so I reacted.
    Synonyms
    chat, talk idly, chatter, prattle, prate, go on, run on, rattle away, rattle on, gossip, tittle-tattle, tattle, ramble, gabble, jabber, babble, blather, blether, blither, twitter, maunder, drivel, patter, yap, jibber-jabber, cackle
noun ˈjatəˈyadər
mass nouninformal
  • Incessant talk.

    there is no place like home for random yatter
    Synonyms
    prattle, chatter, twitter, babble, talk, prating, gabble, jabber, blether, rambling

Origin

Early 19th century: imitative, perhaps suggested by yammer and chatter.

Rhymes

attar, batter, bespatter, chatter, clatter, flatter, hatter, Kenyatta, latter, matamata, matter, natter, patter, platter, ratter, regatta, satyr, scatter, shatter, smatter, spatter, splatter
 
 

Definition of yatter in US English:

yatter

verbˈyadər
[no object]informal
  • Talk incessantly; chatter.

    dear old Betty was yattering at me on Sunday
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Dolly yattered at them fiercely, in a non-discriminatory way.
    • Probably I just realized I'd been yattering for a while, and stopped.
    • In the meantime, let's stop yattering with utterly useless political pontification and attempt to affect one thing - a debate.
    • They'd gone back to their room, to yatter about sex under the covers in dim light and comfort.
    • Since I had only spoken to him once all night, I knew exactly what he was yattering on about and so I reacted.
    • But it's just one step too far in terms of yattering about work (you see, I natter about the trivial and the personalities, but never about the substance, and almost never about the policies).
    Synonyms
    chat, talk idly, chatter, prattle, prate, go on, run on, rattle away, rattle on, gossip, tittle-tattle, tattle, ramble, gabble, jabber, babble, blather, blether, blither, twitter, maunder, drivel, patter, yap, jibber-jabber, cackle
nounˈyadər
informal
  • Incessant talk.

    there is no place like home for random yatter
    Synonyms
    prattle, chatter, twitter, babble, talk, prating, gabble, jabber, blether, rambling

Origin

Early 19th century: imitative, perhaps suggested by yammer and chatter.

 
 
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