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chatterer

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The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chatterer \Chat"ter*er\, n. A prater; an idle talker. (Zo["o]l.) A bird of the family Ampelid[ae] -- so called from its monotonous note. The Bohemion chatterer ( Ampelis garrulus ) inhabits the arctic regions of both continents. In America the cedar bird ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Chatterer is a fictional character appearing in the Hellraiser film series. He is a Cenobite , an order of extradimensional sadomasochists who experiment in an extreme form of hedonism . His name comes from the constant clicking of his teeth, his only means ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A person who chatters; a chatterbox. 2 Any of several passerine birds, mostly from South America; especially the cotingas.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. an obnoxious and foolish and loquacious talker [syn: babbler , prater , chatterbox , magpie , spouter ] passerine bird of New World tropics [syn: cotinga ]

Usage examples of chatterer.

For Comus this first-night performance, with its brilliant gathering of spectators, its groups and coteries of lively talkers, even its counterfoil of dull chatterers, its pervading atmosphere of stage and social movement, and its intruding undercurrent of political flutter, all this composed a tragedy in which he was the chief character.

Generally speaking, it would be more advisable to become a chatterer and keep an anecdotal note-book.

She intended to make for another great tree trunk a couple of hundred meters away, which might be far enough away from the Chatterers to give her a safe passage back to the canopy.

She pushed her way back through the throng of starling-voiced chatterers fortified by a sense of well-earned victory.

While Sweeney worked, Mike located the main input lead for the little invisible chatterers and spliced a line into it.

When that plunger was pushed, the little chatterers would go Off, at the same moment that the barrel went On.