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Etymology 1

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FromMiddle Englishchateren, from earliercheteren,chiteren(“to twitter, chatter, jabber”), ofimitative origin. CompareSaterland Frisiantjoaterje(“to chatter”),West Frisiantsjotterje(“to chatter”),Dutchschateren,schetteren(“chatter”),Dutchkoeteren(“jabber”),Middle Low Germankidderen(“to chatter”),German Low Germanqueteln(“to chatter”), dialectalGermankaudern(“to gobble (like a turkey)”),Danishkvidre(“to twitter, chirp”).

Noun

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chatter (usuallyuncountable,pluralchatters)

  1. Talk, especiallymeaningless orunimportant talk.
    Synonyms:chattering,chatting,nattering;see alsoThesaurus:chatter
    • 1940, Rosetta E. Clarkson,Green Enchantments: The Magic Spell of Gardens, The Macmillan Company, page257:
      Although hardly coming under my theme, I cannot omit this: "Against a woman'schatter: Taste at night fasting a root of radish, that day thechatter cannot harm thee."
  2. Thesound oftalking.
  3. The vocalisations of aEurasian magpie,Pica pica.
  4. The vocalisations of various birds or other animals.
    • 1886,Peter Christen Asbj&oslash￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad,Folk and Fairy Tales, page117:
      The hare cried and complained of the terrible February cold and the disgustingchatter of the owls[.]
    • 1912,Arthur Conan Doyle, “‘The Outlying Pickets of the New World’”, inThe Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.:Hodder and Stoughton,→OCLC,page114:
      At dawn and at sunset the howler monkeys screamed together and the parakeets broke into shrillchatter, but during the hot hours of the day only the full drone of insects, like the beat of a distant surf, filled the ear, while nothing moved amid the solemn vistas of stupendous trunks, fading away into the darkness which held us in.
    • 2016, Cornelia F. Mutel,A Sugar Creek Chronicle, page41:
      The wind rose as the earth darkened, so that fadingchatters of woodland animals were countered by the strengthening sounds of waving trees[…]
  5. Anintermittentnoise, as fromvibration.
    Proper brake adjustment will help to reduce thechatter.
  6. (uncountable) In national security, the degree ofcommunication betweensuspect groups and individuals, used togauge the degree of expectedterrorist activity.
    The NSA is concerned about increasedchatter between known terror groups.
  7. (uncountable) The situation where adrill or similar toolvibrates and tears the material rather than cutting it cleanly.
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Translations
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talk, especially meaningless or unimportant talk
sound of talking
sound of a magpie
intermittent noise, as from vibration
degree of communication between suspects
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Verb

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chatter (third-person singular simple presentchatters,present participlechattering,simple past and past participlechattered)

  1. (intransitive) To talkidly.
    Synonyms:chat,natter
    They knitted andchattered the whole time.
  2. (intransitive, of teeth, machinery, etc.) To make a noise by rapid collisions.
    Synonyms:clatter,gnash,(said of an engine)grind,pink
    He was so cold that his teeth werechattering.
    The software in modern machine tools can often predict and prevent movements that would cause the cutting tool tochatter.
  3. To utter sounds which somewhat resemble language, but are inarticulate and indistinct.
    • 1815 [1802],William Wordsworth,Resolution and Independence:
      The jay makes answer, as the magpiechatters with delight.
    • 2016, David Meyer, Abbie Moore, Pia Salk,The Total Cat Manual‎[1], Weldon Owen International,→ISBN:
      Is your cat intently staring out the window at a bird on a branch and “chattering” in a kind of shaky, high-pitched, breathy way? If so, she is expressing excitement at what she's observing (or maybe the desire to attack what she sees as prey).
Derived terms
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Translations
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talk idly—see alsoyap
make a chattering noise
to utter sounds that are largely inarticulate

Etymology 2

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chat +‎-er

Noun

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chatter (pluralchatters)

  1. One whochats.
  2. (Internet) A user oflivestream chat.
  3. (Internet) A user ofchat rooms.
    • 2013, Michael K. Sullivan,Sexual Minorities, page148:
      During the chat sessions, two outreach team members would engage in a conversation about the topic chosen for that event in the main chat room and entice otherchatters to join in.

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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chatter

  1. (Internet)alternative form oftchatter

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