Speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly.
Talk indistinctly; usually in a low voice.
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Examples for "chatter "
1 The most obvious sign is the increasing chatter about a second referendum.
2 A certain amount of preliminary social chatter was required at this point.
3 There were hints of it in the social chatter of the papers.
4 The chatter this year is that it's the best start in decades.
5 Around this industry, large numbers had gathered simply to watch and chatter .
1 Rick listens to her prattle on for several minutes, and then apologizes.
2 Another week and time again for you to indulge my incorrigible prattle .
3 Even babies echoed the names of our two heroes in their prattle .
4 He pauses seriously to thank them in the midst of his prattle .
5 But to my pleasing task; again let me prattle to my friend.
1 It made a gratifying clackety - clack sound every time I took a step.
2 The lickity - clack of the wheels on the track gobbled up the minutes.
3 And with them new high heels on the sidewalk clack , clack , clack .
4 He heard teeth snapping open and closed, a horrific clack , clack , clack .
5 He slammed the door and Judy heard the bolt clack into place.
1 People will not accept free seeds without a certain amount of palaver .
2 Spaghetti or any long ribbon pasta, in contrast, is a right palaver .
3 Now dey lib for Congo, dey not like the idea of soldier - palaver .
4 They continued their palaver throughout the afternoon and into the early evening.
5 One undeniable thing in this palaver is the Russian reputation for glamour.
1 When the meal was over, the children sate together in whispering tattle .
2 Is not this better than the indulgence in perpetual trifling and tattle ?
3 They cabal, and tattle , and hiss, and cackle comminations under their breath.
4 But asking a little girl to tattle on her friends seemed monstrous.
5 Social tattle and friendly interchange are not the only component, however.
1 One has only to blab in his cups and it all collapses.
2 Breanne will blab everything to her friends, to people at the party.
3 You let me blab about the soft places, about my family's secrets.
4 He would blab to my daddy, and I would get a whuppin'.
5 You blab to my wife, and I'll be as good as dead.
1 Not that I'm buyin' this technical twaddle for one minute, you understand.
2 Whoever, in a respected publishing house, was responsible for such whimsical twaddle ?
3 They are too sensible to indulge in mere twaddle about the weather.
4 We forget the immense amount of twaddle that the great epochs produced.
5 The solemn unction with which he pronounced this twaddle is beyond description.
1 There followed a tedious debate, a muddy flow of gabble and balderdash.
2 Shawn began to gabble with amazing speed and in a mighty voice:
3 Abolitionists sneered at all this gabble about the sacredness of the Constitution.
4 There was a brave gabble of tongues enough when I came in.
5 You were reciting some gabble on the steps a little bit ago.
1 We prate much of the family as the unit of the state.
2 We prate a lot about the fair sex and its sweet vanities.
3 The hardest part for a soldier to play is to prate well.
4 Quoth the Khalif, Thou shalt not forestall me with talk and prate .
5 But we prate like gossiping river-men.-Wiltsee the Skimmer of the Seas?
1 I am much obliged for your help, but you are talking piffle .
2 Listen: Instead of all this impossible piffle , let's start a real story.
3 One hoarse raucous piffle and three sharp decisive puffs for your arguments!
4 He wasted money, energy and wrote piffle , was his damning verdict.
5 The leader of the boys said: Aw, piffle , cut it out.
1 A monkey chained in one corner began to gibber and mow at me.
2 After that he will be left to gibber his visions to padded walls.
3 The salinae scream and gibber , desperate to communicate what they know.
4 He ached with desire to express and could but gibber prosaically as everybody gibbered.
5 Does she ask why? the assassin began to gibber .
1 And I started to blabber about how much she meant to me.
2 So, this was interestingtwo attorneys, an accountant, and a TV blabber person.
3 Why, you rotten, double-crossing, blabber - mouthed little tramp, I ought to kill you!
4 God knows, we're sure to hear enough of that blabber today.
5 Either way, you don't want to blabber along in a message about your cat's whole day.
1 Do you expect me to allow scandalous tittle - tattle to be spread about Town?
2 The General Here you see the effect of all this tittle - tattle .
3 This, however, is not mere tittle - tattle or tabloid fodder about romance.
4 Herein lies the secret of the avarice and tittle - tattle that poison provincial life.
5 And Minister, here's some juicy tittle - tattle we gathered for you earlier.
1 Tyson could speak, Tyson could write, where other men maunder and drivel.
2 Apian continued to maunder over the Ptolemaic theory and astrology in his lecture-room.
3 And while you maunder about restoring competition, the trusts go on destroying you.
4 All of which it is a comfort somehow to maunder away on here.
5 That is what his life has turned, but he will not maunder about it.
6 And while they maunder along they stifle the forces of life which are trying to break through.
7 I hate to hear him maunder on about imagination, while he leaves his tenantry to take their chance.
8 Let her maunder and mumble.
10 Among the occultists who maunder today in the universal decomposition of ideas he is the only one who interests me.
11 Though of course-Oh ,howone does maunder on and to think, to think of the people who are really poor.
12 As sure as he was there thinking over John Gordon and Mary Lawrie, would he maunder away his mind in softnesses.
13 No, no, I won't maunder , I won't be a romantic zany-nottill to-morrownight- Iknowthe very spot for our camp....'
14 Nevertheless, maunder he must; and he recurred to it in a way so utterly unlike himself that Laetitia stared in his face.
15 A man may maunder away his mind in softnesses till he ain't worth nothing, and don't do no good to no one.
16 Now that I can do nothing, I maunder over old subjects, and your approbation of my climbing paper gives me VERY great satisfaction.
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