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  • Lil-Ras - yup, I was down there with a catchers mit, chompin on a big wad of "Big League Chew" chatterin "hey, battah battah battah, swing".

    Dlisted - Be Very Afraid 2009

  • But wasn't it for all the world like children with empty little stummicks an 'chatterin' tongues?

    The Spinner's Book of Fiction Various

  • What with grand rigs full o 'chatterin' women and children a-drivin 'past the door, and the whole

    Nancy McVeigh of the Monk Road 1921

  • "Right, lad, right" returned the trapper, "but you can go an 'ask the little Buck to jine us, an' if he's inclined you can both come -- only you must agree to leave yer tongues behind ye if ye do, for it behoves hunters to be silent, and from my experience of you I raither think yer too fond o 'chatterin'."

    Twice Bought 1859

  • All de day long kind o 'chatterin' and hurryin 'de niggers up when dere a-droppin' de seed in de line, and scoldin 'and hurryin' all de day long, when dere a-hoein 'down de weeds.

    Citizen Bird Scenes from Bird-Life in Plain English for Beginners Elliott Coues 1870

  • "I'll never forget how it looked inside -- all warm an 'lamp-lit an' with them little things bein 'fed an' chatterin 'soft.

    Friendship Village Zona Gale 1906

  • Don't want to be in range of me chatterin 'in their ear that they need to be figurin' out the pitcher.

    The Measure Of A Man 2010

  • Wen we liffed in teh forrist, I saw awl 4 ov mai kittehs glood to teh porch-window channel, tayles wipping back an forf, chatterin “I kin take im,” “I kin take im wif wun paws tied behin mai back!”

    i luvs - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • Red Neck: whut kin one does, eff'n th' only straightfo'ward tax of ev'ry intellyjunt man is pointless chatterin', th' deliberate pourin' outta emppiness.

    Archive 2008-09-01 Kirsty 2008

  • Jive: whut kin one do, if de only straightfo'ward tax' uh every intelligent joker is pointless chatterin', de deliberate pourin' out uh emptiness.

    Archive 2008-09-01 Kirsty 2008

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