Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of chattering; the disposition or habit of talking much.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun colloq. The act or habit of chattering.
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- noun colloquial, dated
chattering
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Examples
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The doctor modestly but firmly declined to be thus imposed upon, and then ensued a general "chatteration;" one and all fell into attitudes, and the "inos" and "issimos" rolled freely.
Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe Compiled From Her Letters and Journals by Her Son Charles Edward Stowe Harriet Beecher Stowe 1853
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Wandering on, she kept no reckoning of time or distance, until she came to a church in the midst of green elms, and rooks keeping up a perpetual chatteration on the topmost branches of the trees.
Odd Amy le Feuvre
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The doctor modestly but firmly declined to be thus imposed upon, and then ensued a general “chatteration;” one and all fell into attitudes, and the “inos” and “issimos” rolled freely.
The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe Stowe, Charles Edward 1889
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