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adjective

Definition of yammeringnext
as in crying

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yammering

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noun

1
as in whining

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2
as in prattle

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yammering

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verb

present participle of yammer
as in complaining
to express dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment usually tiresomely customers yammered on for what seemed like days about the billing mistake

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for yammering
  1. prattle
  2. complaining
  3. howling
  4. whining
  5. chatter
  6. jabber
  7. blab
  8. patter
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
Verb
  • There had been a protest of several thousand people complaining about the flaunting of wealth that the America’s Cup represents.
    George Allen, Robb Report, 21 Oct. 2024
  • Leave none standing, none breathing, none whining and complaining and being useless and miserable all the time.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
Definition of complaining
Adjective
  • But most ominous of all, at least for me, are the howling winds.
    Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 9 July 2024
  • Their capabilities range from merely howling threats, to throwing Molotov cocktails, to carrying out suicide operations or blowing up cars, to seizing control of territory—at least for a time.
    Nelly Lahoud, Foreign Affairs, 13 Aug. 2021
Definition of howling
Noun
  • But the only sound from within was the faint whining of a dog.
    Heidi Blake, The New Yorker, 29 July 2024
  • The soundtrack of this and every summer is my incessant whining to the beat of a whirring fan.
    Allison Robicelli, Washington Post, 11 July 2024
Definition of whining
Noun
  • Quartz’s Rocio Fabbro runs down Powell’s limited chatter about it.
    Melvin Backman, Quartz, 8 Nov. 2024
  • Around 9:15, someone turned up the volume and Rachel Maddow’s voice rose above the chatter, warning that results would be coming in all night.
    Curbed Staff, Curbed, 6 Nov. 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
  • The unknowing apprentice blabs about red hair and more to Cressida, who then takes the information to blackmail Penelope into paying her a huge sum.
    Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 13 June 2024
  • But things turn sour when Eloise blabs about Colin helping Pen to Cressida and another one of the ladies nearby hears it … and well, gossip is meant to be spread right?
    Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 16 May 2024
Definition of blab
Noun
  • Most of the cast rises to meet the quality of his inimitable patter, particularly in the cases of Stiller, Claudia Schiffer, and Joe Pantoliano, upon whose backs the core mystery hinges.
    Sean Malin, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2024
  • But at times, there’s a defensive, slightly cruel streak to his patter that can eclipse his better angels (of which there are many) and test the goodwill of those around him.
    Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2024
Definition of patter
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