Definition of Chatter

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Chatter

To utter sounds which somewhat resemble language, but are inarticulate and indistinct.

To talk idly, carelessly, or with undue rapidity; to jabber; to prate.

To make a noise by rapid collisions.

To utter rapidly, idly, or indistinctly.

Sounds like those of a magpie or monkey; idle talk; rapid, thoughtless talk; jabber; prattle.

Noise made by collision of the teeth, as in shivering.

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Chatter Quotations

To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.
Aleister Crowley

All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.
Antonin Artaud

A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.
Sophocles

Silence and solitude are more distracting to me than chatter and commotion.
Marilu Henner

There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter.
Guy Debord

It is still not enough for language to have clarity and content... it must also have a goal and an imperative. Otherwise from language we descend to chatter, from chatter to babble and from babble to confusion.
Rene Daumal

Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same.
Phyllis McGinley

Blogs are a great way to monitor and even participate in the chatter about your new site.
Mike Davidson

Republicans regard Dean as one of their best secret weapons, I have yet to find a Democrat who, in private chatter, doesn't think he's a problem for them.
Rich Galen

Chatter Translations

chatter in Danish is snakke
chatter in Dutch is babbelen, keuvelen, praten
chatter in French is bavarder, babil, cacarder
chatter in German is plappern, geplapper, schnattern, Kontaktprellen
chatter in Latin is effutio
chatter in Spanish is charla

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