| 单词 | chatter |
| 释义 | chatter (once / 418 pages) 1vn 2v To chatter is to talk lightly or casually — to shoot the breeze or chitchat. You might chatter with your workmates about the weather or where you'll eat lunch. You probably chatter with your friends all the time without even thinking about it, gossiping or talking about unimportant things. You can call the talk itself chatter too: "The chatter in the cafeteria was so loud I couldn't hear myself think." In the 13th century, it was chateren, from an imitative Middle English root. WORD FAMILYchatter: chattered, chatterer, chattering, chatters+/chatterer: chatterers/chattering: chatterings USAGE EXAMPLESThe selection contains more of Chan’s paintings, which tend to be small; some hang over Baines pieces to spark visual chatter. Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016) You’ve seen and heard the reports and the chatter about the long list of well-known people who died in 2016. Washington Times(Dec 29, 2016) Amid all the chatter, it was easy to miss that 2016 was also a turning point for fashions themselves. Wall Street Journal(Dec 28, 2016) 1 1v talk socially without exchanging too much information Syn|Hypo|Hyper chaffer, chat, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, claver, confab, confabulate, gossip, jaw, natter, shoot the breeze, visit jawbone, schmoose, schmooze, shmoose, shmooze talk idly or casually and in a friendly way converse, discourse carry on a conversation 2v speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly Syn|Hypo|Hyper blab, blabber, clack, gabble, gibber, maunder, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle babble, blather, blether, blither, smatter to talk foolishly mouth, speak, talk, utter, verbalise, verbalize express in speech 3v make noise as if chattering away The magpies were chattering in the trees Hyper mouth, speak, talk, utter, verbalise, verbalize express in speech 4v click repeatedly or uncontrollably Chattering teeth Syn|Hyper click go, sound make a certain noise or sound 5n noisy talk Syn|Hypo|Hyper cackle, yack, yak, yakety-yak blether, chin music, idle talk, prate, prattle idle or foolish and irrelevant talk talk, talking an exchange of ideas via conversation 6n the high-pitched continuing noise made by animals (birds or monkeys) Syn|Hyper chattering noise sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound) 7n the rapid series of noises made by the parts of a machine 2Syn|Hyper chattering noise sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound) v cut unevenly with a chattering tool Hyper cut separate with or as if with an instrument |
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