chatter

nouns

noisy talk

cackle, chatter, yack, yak, yakety-yak

the rapid series of noises made by the parts of a machine

chatter, chattering

the high-pitched continuing noise made by animals (birds or monkeys)

chatter, chattering

click repeatedly or uncontrollably

"Chattering teeth"

chatter, click

cut unevenly with a chattering tool

chatter

is derived from

is a type of (narrower)

separate with or as if with an instrument

"Cut the rope"

talk socially without exchanging too much information

"the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze"

chaffer, chat, chatter, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, claver, confab, confabulate, gossip, jaw, natter, shoot the breeze, visit

is derived from

speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly

blab, blabber, chatter, clack, gabble, gibber, maunder, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle

is derived from

make noise as if chattering away

"The magpies were chattering in the trees"

chatter

is derived from

is derived from

is a type of (narrower)

express in speech

"She talks a lot of nonsense"; "This depressed patient does not verbalize"