chatter

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Not because he's British or relatively unknown in America, as most of the chatter was about before Sunday night's show from Los Angeles.

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  1. intransitive verb To talk rapidly, incessantly, and on trivial subjects; jabber.
  2. intransitive verb To utter a rapid series of short, inarticulate, speechlike sounds: birds chattering in the trees.
  3. intransitive verb To click quickly and repeatedly: Our teeth chattered from the cold.
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  • And in that moment, my brain chatter -- my left hemisphere brain chatter -- went totally silent. —  Jill Bolte Taylor's stroke of insight
  • In every accent, including Western U.S., the chatter is the same: did you see the latest forecast? —  JSOnline.com
  • Once there, the chatter is about Palin's background as a hockey player, a broadcast journalist and her high school nickname of Sarah Barracuda. —  Blog updates
  • Looks like my last blog cause some chatter, which is a good sign I guess.
  • Not because he's British or relatively unknown in America, as most of the chatter was about before Sunday night's show from Los Angeles. —  The American Culture
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clatter ·  laughter ·  babble ·  hum ·  shout ·  whisper ·  exclamation ·  gossip ·  noise ·  merriment ·  prattle ·  clamour

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chatter:   chattered ·  chattering
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English chateren, of imitative origin.

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  1. from Middle English chateren, chatren, cheateren, chatter, with a diminutive form chiteren ( later English chitter; cf. chitchat), apparently an imitative variation of a form *cwiteren, *quiteren, modern English quitter = Scots quhitter, twitter, = Swedish qvittra = Danish kvidre, twitter, chirp, = D. kwetteren, chatter, warble: prob. a variation of what is properly a freq. form connected with Anglo-Saxon cwethan, say, speak: see bequeath and quoth, and cf. twitter. Shortened to chat, q. v.
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