Crossword clues for chattered
chattered
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chatter \Chat"ter\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Chattered; p. pr. & vb. n. Chattering.] [Of imitative origin. Cf. Chat, v. i. Chitter.]
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To utter sounds which somewhat resemble language, but are inarticulate and indistinct.
The jaw makes answer, as the magpie chatters.
--Wordsworth. -
To talk idly, carelessly, or with undue rapidity; to jabber; to prate.
To tame a shrew, and charm her chattering tongue.
--Shak. -
To make a noise by rapid collisions.
With chattering teeth, and bristling hair upright.
--Dryden.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: chatter)
Usage examples of "chattered".
Downers scurried about naked and enjoying it, the brown fur of their spindly limbs and lithe bodies dark with moisture and plastered to them, their faces, round-eyed and with mouths set in permanent o’s of surprise, watched and chattered together in their own language, a babble in the rain and the constant bass of thunder.
The male chattered something to her, pushed at her, and she reached and touched at Damon.
Bluetooth, his arm done up in a white bandage, scrambled up not to be left, and chattered something to the others.
The few guards along their route stayed very still, suddenly in the minority, and Downers chattered with increasing freedom among themselves as they reached the end of the hall and entered the spiraling broad ramp which led to doors on all the nine levels.
Downers met them in it, scampered along, bounced and bounded and chattered welcomes.
He was a "geysermouth," as they called it, since he chattered incessantly.
But from some of the tales Ker had chattered on with, he was distinctly criminal: he told how he had rigged certain games of chance, how he had looted ore boxes “as a joke,” how he had gotten a female to believe her father needed money and “relayed it for her.
The pilots chattered Psychlo at each other: all their equipment was in Psychlo as well as their manuals and navigation and related skills.
They chattered away in a language called “English”-which he had vocoder circuits for from ages back and they were making advance arrangements for the visit of a notable.
She was still staring at the first problem, when the com puter pinged warningly and then chattered out the answer.
As the printout chattered, Odis sank back into the padded couch, his suspicions confirmed.
They chattered happily as Varian lifted the sled and circled the geological site.
It was disconcerting for Helva to watch her frustrated, brooding self-examination while Nia and Kurla chattered inconsequentialities in the galley.
It's not quite ripe yet, of course," he chattered as he led the way down the path, "but it's going to be a prime crop.
Or they could have pithed him," Seg chattered on, unaware of the thunder in Joseph's eyes.