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How to pronounce chatter in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms chaffer, chat, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, claver, confab, confabulate, gossip, jaw, natter, shoot the breeze, visit
Type of discourse, converse
Has types jawbone, shmoose, shmooze, schmoose, schmooze
Derivation chatterer
Type Words
Synonyms chattering
Type of noise
Type Words
Synonyms cackle, yack, yak, yakety-yak
Type of talk, talking
Has types blether, chin music, idle talk, prate, prattle
Type Words
Synonyms blab, blabber, clack, gabble, gibber, maunder, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle
Type of speak, verbalize, verbalise, mouth, utter, talk
Has types blether, smatter, blither, blather, babble
Derivation chatterer
Type Words
Synonyms click
Type of go, sound
Type Words
Synonyms chattering
Type of noise
Type Words
Type of cut
Derivation chattering
Type Words
Type of verbalise, talk, mouth, verbalize, utter, speak
Derivation chattering, chatterer


The magpies were chattering in the trees.

Examples of chatter

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You break out in a cold sweat, your teeth chatter, knees knock, and hands shake.
From the nzcatholic.org.nz
There has also been chatter that Gosling clashed with Jarecki during production.
From the sacbee.com
Audience members started yelling out comments that reflected the online chatter.
From the cnn.com
Why does the American public put up with such idle chatter and watch such tripe?
From the sacbee.com
What's new, I think, is the thread of personal affront in the parenting chatter.
From the parenting.blogs.nytimes.com
I asked him if, over the weekend, he saw a lot of BBM chatter from his contacts?
From the techcrunch.com
But there is already some chatter about other new stores on the horizon in 2013.
From the stltoday.com
This alerted the British to the problem, and they tightened up on radio chatter.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Chatter about the betrayal saturates the trail, and Cahill makes the most of it.
From the boston.com
More examples
  • Click repeatedly or uncontrollably; "Chattering teeth"
  • Yak: noisy talk
  • The rapid series of noises made by the parts of a machine
  • Cut unevenly with a chattering tool
  • The high-pitched continuing noise made by animals (birds or monkeys)
  • Chew the fat: talk socially without exchanging too much information; "the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze"
  • Machining vibrations, also called chatter, correspond to the relative movement between the workpiece and the cutting tool. The vibrations result in waves on the machined surface. ...
  • Chatter is an old term from signal intelligence, used more generally after the turn of the century in the United States "war on terror". ...
  • Talk, especially meaningless or unimportant talk; the sound of talking; the sound made by a magpie; an intermittent noise, as from vibration; in national security, the degree of communication between suspect groups and individuals, used to gauge the degree of expected terrorist activity; To ...