| 单词 | yammer |
| 释义 | yammer (once / 40202 pages) v To yammer is to make a loud, howling sound, or to talk on and on about nothing much at all. When cats yammer outside your window all night long, it's hard to fall asleep. You might complain about the way your neighbors yammer loudly in their yard early in the morning, or about the fact that your brothers yammer and fight all through dinner. Whether a person, an animal, or an inanimate object like a motorcycle yammers, it makes a pretty annoying sound. In the fifteenth century, yammer meant "to lament," from the Old English root geomor, "sorrowful." WORD FAMILYyammer: yammered, yammering, yammers USAGE EXAMPLESWe might be yammering about them nonstop this week but for one bygone Saturday that still screams. Washington Post(Dec 27, 2016) There’s the menu, the timing, the seating arrangement around your loud relative who won’t stop yammering even as he’s stuffing his face with your food. Washington Post(Nov 11, 2016) Somehow these evenings all run together, a blur of zooming graphics and flickering maps and yammering anchors, both interminable and fleeting. Washington Post(Nov 04, 2016) 1v cry loudly, as of animals Syn|Hyper howl, wrawl, yowl emit, let loose, let out, utter express audibly; utter sounds (not necessarily words) 2v complain whiningly Syn|Hyper grizzle, whine, yawp snivel, whine talk in a tearful manner complain, kick, kvetch, plain, quetch, sound off express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness |
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