Definitions for chatter

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chatter chat·ter

Spelling: [chat-er]

IPA: /ˈtʃæt ər/

Chatter is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 200 anagrams from letters in chatter (acehrtt).

Definitions for chatter

noun

1. purposeless or foolish talk.
2. a series of waves or ridges on the surface of a piece of metal that has been imperfectly drawn or extruded.
3. the act or sound of chattering.
4. online, phone, radio, or other electronic communication among people, often involving a harmful political activity such as espionage or terrorism:

verb (used with object)

1. to utter rapidly or purposelessly.
2. to cause to chatter, as the teeth from cold.

verb (used without object)

1. to talk rapidly in a foolish or purposeless way; jabber.
2. to utter a succession of quick, inarticulate, speechlike sounds, as monkeys or certain birds.
3. to make a rapid clicking noise by striking together:
4. Machinery. (of a cutting tool or piece of metal) to vibrate during cutting so as to produce surface flaws on the work.

Origin of chatter

1200-50; Middle English chateren; imitative

Examples for chatter

How could I chatter nothings when Ned was by my side, smiling down at me so confusedly?

And as the outbreak deepens and advances across more borders (including the U.S.), chatter on Twitter has also spread swiftly.

Indeed, the chatter for the past year on the anti-gay fringe has been of resistance.

The discussion of reparations for descendants of slaves saw some chatter this year after a piece in The Atlantic.

Pierre had been listening somewhat inquisitively to all this chatter.

This constant Internet chatter allows people to not take responsibility for themselves.

Perhaps organizers will simply give up and settle for chatter.

The Nubian, taken completely by surprise, began to chatter with fright.

The Abbe Brigaut, too, it is said, begins to chatter about it.

"Let me whisper in your ear," said Miss Desmond, loud above the chatter of the weir.