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Definition of chattering :
1. of Chatter
2. The act or habit of talking idly or rapidly, or of making inarticulate sounds; the sounds so made; noise made by the collision of the teeth; chatter.
Synonyms:
yack, garrulous, yak, yakety-yak, chatter, cackle
speaking (part of speech: verb)
gabbing, debating, prattling, orating, reciting, preaching, vocalizing, remarking, discussing, lecturing, saying, voicing, chitchatting, pattering, tattling
rumbling (part of speech: verb)
buzzing, throbbing, drumming, thrumming, clattering, beating, chanting, reverberating, rumbling, thundering, rattling, grumbling, rolling, clatter, droning, humming
speech (part of speech: noun)
discussion, prattle, spoken word, report, vocalization, dialog, circumlocution, oration, speech, allocution, talking, jabbering, patter, elocution, chat, recitation, debate, speaking, oral communication, dialect, locution, voice, chitchat, babbling, remark
talkative (part of speech: adjective)
talkative, loquacious, un-reticent, verbose, wordy, long-winded
ululating (part of speech: verb)
crying, chirping, cackling, squawking, cawing, honking, bleating, grunting, neighing, quacking, mooing, squealing, gobbling, yelping, growling, hooting, bellowing, baying, clucking, snarling, snorting, cooing, purring, whinnying, howling, cuckooing, trilling, twitting, ululating, calling, meowing, warbling, roaring, mewing, bawling, braying, crowing, barking
Usage examples:
- " Let us only get out into the country," she thought, and clenched her teeth to prevent them chattering. - "The Song of Songs", Hermann Sudermann.
- What are you chattering about? - "The Grain Of Dust A Novel", David Graham Phillips.
- " Yessorno," said Puffin, with chattering teeth. - "Miss Mapp", Edward Frederic Benson.