chatter

chatter
v
1. jabber, prattle, cackle, gibber, Sl. gibber-jabber, jargon; babble, prate, tattle, twaddle, Brit. twattle; patter, gabble, blather, drivel; mutter, mumble, splutter, sputter, stammer; chit-chat, chitter-chatter, chaffer, bandy words; gossip, buzz, talk idly, Sl. shoot the breeze, Sl. gas, Inf. gab, Sl. bull; palaver, clack, clatter, rattle, Sl. run off or on at the mouth; gush, blab, Inf. spout; be loquacious or talkative, ramble, maunder.
n
2. small talk, chit-chat, chitter-chatter, gossip, buzzing, Inf. gab, idle or foolish talk; palaver, Sl. hot air, Sl. gas, Sl. bull; nonsense, gibberish, jargon, gob-bledegook, hocus-pocus, mumbo jumbo, abracadabra, open-sesame; humbug, flummery, Sl. bunk, rubbish, Inf. rot, Sl. garbage, Sl. horsefeathers; balderdash, hogwash, stuff and nonsense, Inf. bosh, fudge, foolishness, rigmarole or rigamarole; poppycock, Inf. fiddle-faddle, Inf. piffle, Inf. kibosh, Inf. flapdoodle.
3. chattering, jabbering, jabber, Jabberwocky; prattling, prattle, cackling, cackle, gibbering, gibber; babbling, babble, babblement, Fr. bavardage. rambling, maundering; prating, prate, tattling, tattle, twaddling, twaddle, Both Brit. twattling, twattle; pattering, patter, gabbling, gabble, blathering, blather, driveling, drivel; blab, blabbing, gushing, Inf. spouting, Sl. running off or on at the mouth.

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