| 释义 |
Verb: chatter chatu(r)- Click repeatedly or uncontrollably
"Chattering teeth"
- click - Cut unevenly with a chattering tool
- Talk socially without exchanging too much information
- chew the fat, shoot the breeze [N. Amer], chat, confabulate, confab, chitchat, chit-chat, chaffer, natter, gossip, jaw, claver [UK, dialect], visit, gas, gab - Speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
- piffle, palaver, prate, tittle-tattle, twaddle, clack, maunder, prattle, blab, gibber, tattle, blabber, gabble, witter [Brit], rabbit [Brit], yabber [Brit] - Make noise as if chattering away
"The magpies were chattering in the trees"
Noun: chatter chatu(r)- Noisy talk
- yak, yack, yakety-yak, cackle, yackety-yak - The rapid series of noises made by the parts of a machine
- chattering - The high-pitched continuing noise made by animals (birds or monkeys)
- chattering
Derived forms: chatters, chattering, chattered See also: chatterer Type of: converse, cut, discourse, go, mouth, noise, sound, speak, talk, talking, utter, verbalise [Brit], verbalize Encyclopedia: Chatter |