chattering 1 of 2

noun

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as in babbling

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chattering

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verb

present participle of chatter
1
as in chatting
to engage in casual or rambling conversation chattered idly while waiting in line

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2
as in drooling
to speak rapidly, inarticulately, and usually unintelligibly the parrot chatters all day

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for chattering
  1. babbling
  2. chatting
  3. talking
  4. prattle
  5. chatter
  6. jabber
  7. whisper
Noun
  • Today, her daughter, Dana, is growing up like any other Swiss suburban child, in Basel now, splashing around in toddler swim classes and speaking to her mother in a babbling mix of English and Ukrainian.
    Ann Scott Tyson, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Nov. 2024
  • Washington mom uses sign language to convey daughter’s babbling to deaf husband Courtney Lotane recently documented her car ride in Seattle, Washington.
    Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 20 Sep. 2023
Definition of babbling
Verb
  • Particularly riveting moments include Ratliff’s daughter chatting with the voice clone, and the AI Ratliff seeking counsel for the real Ratliff’s private concerns in a session with an AI therapist.
    Marnie Shure, The Atlantic, 24 Dec. 2024
  • At that youth football game, Beth Dickerson was chatting with Perri Owens when one of the boys came up and started talking.
    Brad Schmitt, The Tennessean, 23 Dec. 2024
Definition of chatting
Verb
  • That’s the Red Queen in Alice in Wonderland talking her usual nonsense, back in 1871.
    Glenn Adamson, ARTnews.com, 16 Dec. 2024
  • Bedard thought his recent production was a byproduct of his own ability and talking with Sorensen.
    Scott Powers, The Athletic, 16 Dec. 2024
Definition of talking
Noun
  • She was getting winded on our walk, and her prattle was broken up by heavy breaths.
    Joshua Cohen, The New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2024
  • The larcenous prattle is, in this sense, a typically Wiig-ian set piece: sunny, strained and flailing for dignity.
    Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 20 Mar. 2024
Definition of prattle
Noun
  • Hong Kong and Mainland China grinded higher, led by growth stocks and consumer subsectors on chatter of holiday season vouchers and in anticipation of the post-CEWC release’s pro-consumption and fiscal policy expansion.
    Brendan Ahern, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
  • The chatter began as soon as Trump first announced that Vance would join him on the Republican presidential ticket.
    Jeremiah Poff, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 10 Dec. 2024
Definition of chatter
Noun
  • Worse, such jabber crowds out essential coverage of genuine threats to democracy and the visions of the two parties.
    Jennifer Rubin, Washington Post, 16 July 2024
  • Jacobs-Jenkins renders him as a wry, friendly figure who occasionally takes over the bodies of the other characters to explain what is happening beneath their jabber.
    Jesse Green, New York Times, 5 June 2023
Definition of jabber
Noun
  • With a fan balanced behind each ear, the device operates at the level of a whisper (30 decibels), and its battery can last for 17 hours, or the equivalent of two workdays.
    Olatunji Osho-Williams, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Dec. 2024
  • Neutral and clean with just a whisper of grain and pepper to enliven the palate.
    Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
Definition of whisper
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