chatter
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(verb) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly |
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Synonyms: blabber, clack, gabble, gibber, maunder, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle |
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Related Words: babble, blather, blether, blither, mouth, smatter, speak, talk, utter, verbalize |
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(verb) make noise as if chattering away: "The magpies were chattering in the trees" |
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Related Words: mouth, speak, talk, utter, verbalize |
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(verb) cut unevenly with a chattering tool |
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Related Words: cut |
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(verb) click repeatedly or uncontrollably, as of teeth |
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Synonyms: click |
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Related Words: go, sound |
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(noun) the high-pitched continuing noise made by animals (birds or monkeys) |
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Synonyms: chattering |
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Related Words: noise |
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(noun) the rapid series of noises made by the parts of a machine |
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Synonyms: chattering |
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Related Words: noise |
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(noun) noisy talk |
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Synonyms: cackle, yack, yak, yakety-yak |
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Related Words: blether, chin music, idle talk, prate, prattle, talk, talking |
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(verb) chew the fat; shoot the breeze |
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Synonyms: chaffer, chat, chitchat, claver, confab, confabulate, gossip, jaw, natter, visit |
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Related Words: converse, discourse, jawbone, shmooze |
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