chatter

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈtʃætə/
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• General-American: chătʹər
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• General-American: /ˈt͡ʃætɚ/
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• rhymes with -ætə(ɹ)
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• CMU ARPABET: CH AE1 T ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Etymology tree Middle English cheteren, chiteren (Imitative)der. Middle English chateren English chatter From Middle English chateren, from earlier cheteren, chiteren (“to twitter, chatter, jabber”), of imitative origin. Compare Saterland Frisian tjoaterje (“to chatter”), West Frisian tsjotterje (“to chatter”), Dutch schateren, schetteren (“chatter”), Dutch koeteren (“jabber”), Middle Low German kidderen (“to chatter”), German Low German queteln (“to chatter”), dialectal German kaudern (“to gobble (like a turkey)”), Danish kvidre (“to twitter, chirp”).

Etymology tree English chat Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English chatter From chat + -er.

198 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: bërbëlit — talk, especially meaningless or unimportant talk
• Bulgarian: дърдо́рене (dǎrdórene) — talk, especially meaningless or unimportant talk
• Catalan: xerrameca — talk, especially meaningless or unimportant talk
• Chinese Mandarin: 廢話 /废话 (fèihuà) — talk, especially meaningless or unimportant talk
• Chinese Mandarin: 閒話 /闲话 or 閑話 /闲话 (xiánhuà) — talk, especially meaningless or unimportant talk
• Dutch: geklets — talk, especially meaningless or unimportant talk
• Dutch: gekwebbel — talk, especially meaningless or unimportant talk
• Dutch: gebabbel — talk, especially meaningless or unimportant talk
• Dutch: geouwehoer — talk, especially meaningless or unimportant talk
• Finnish: jaarittelu — talk, especially meaningless or unimportant talk
• Finnish: juttelu — talk, especially meaningless or unimportant talk
• Finnish: rupattelu — talk, especially meaningless or unimportant talk
• Finnish: lörpöttely — talk, especially meaningless or unimportant talk
• French: jacassement — talk, especially meaningless or unimportant talk
• French: bagou — talk, especially meaningless or unimportant talk
• French: blabla — talk, especially meaningless or unimportant talk
• French: laïus — talk, especially meaningless or unimportant talk
• German: Geplapper — talk, especially meaningless or unimportant talk
• German: Gequatsche — talk, especially meaningless or unimportant talk
• German: Geschnatter — talk, especially meaningless or unimportant talk
• German: Gequake — talk, especially meaningless or unimportant talk
• German: Geschwätz — talk, especially meaningless or unimportant talk
• German: Gequassel — talk, especially meaningless or unimportant talk
• Greek: φλυαρία (flyaría) — talk, especially meaningless or unimportant talk
• Hindi: बकना (baknā) — talk, especially meaningless or unimportant talk
• Hindi: बकवास करना (bakvās karnā) — talk, especially meaningless or unimportant talk
• Hungarian: csevegés — talk, especially meaningless or unimportant talk
• Hungarian: fecsegés — talk, especially meaningless or unimportant talk
• Irish: aighneas — talk, especially meaningless or unimportant talk
• Italian: chiacchierio — talk, especially meaningless or unimportant talk
• Italian: chiacchiericcio — talk, especially meaningless or unimportant talk
• Japanese: 無駄話 (mudabanashi) — talk, especially meaningless or unimportant talk
• Japanese: 冗言 (jōgen) — talk, especially meaningless or unimportant talk
• Ladino: avlastina — talk, especially meaningless or unimportant talk
• Māori: tarawhete — talk, especially meaningless or unimportant talk
• Māori: kōtetetete — talk, especially meaningless or unimportant talk
• Portuguese: falatório — talk, especially meaningless or unimportant talk
• Quechua: qasi simi — talk, especially meaningless or unimportant talk
• Russian: болтовня́ (boltovnjá) — talk, especially meaningless or unimportant talk
• Russian: трёп (trjop) — talk, especially meaningless or unimportant talk
• Scottish Gaelic: goileam — talk, especially meaningless or unimportant talk
• Spanish: parloteo — talk, especially meaningless or unimportant talk
• Spanish: cotorreo — talk, especially meaningless or unimportant talk
• Spanish: cháchara — talk, especially meaningless or unimportant talk
• Spanish: palique — talk, especially meaningless or unimportant talk
• Swedish: pladder — talk, especially meaningless or unimportant talk
• Swedish: tjatter — talk, especially meaningless or unimportant talk
• Swedish: babbel — talk, especially meaningless or unimportant talk
• Tocharian B: käskor — talk, especially meaningless or unimportant talk
• Turkish: çene çalmak — talk, especially meaningless or unimportant talk
• Turkish: gevezelik — talk, especially meaningless or unimportant talk
• Yiddish: פּלוידערײַ (ployderay) — talk, especially meaningless or unimportant talk
• Dutch: geroezemoes — sound of talking
• Finnish: pulina — sound of talking
• French: blabla — sound of talking
• French: bavardage — sound of talking
• French: brouhaha — sound of talking
• Italian: brusio — sound of talking
• Italian: mormorio — sound of talking
• Māori: haunene — sound of talking
• Polish: terkot — sound of talking
• Portuguese: burburinho — sound of talking
• Spanish: vocerío — sound of talking
• Swedish: tjatter — sound of talking
• Danish: skræppe — sound of a magpie
• Dutch: gekwetter — sound of a magpie
• Finnish: räkätys — sound of a magpie
• French: jacassement — sound of a magpie
• Italian: gracidio — sound of a magpie
• Italian: gracchio — sound of a magpie
• Māori: koekoe — sound of a magpie
• Bulgarian: дрънчене (drǎnčene) — intermittent noise, as from vibration
• Bulgarian: вибрация (vibracija) — intermittent noise, as from vibration
• Danish: hakke — intermittent noise, as from vibration
• Danish: klapre — intermittent noise, as from vibration
• Dutch: geratel — intermittent noise, as from vibration
• Dutch: geklapper — intermittent noise, as from vibration
• Finnish: kalina — intermittent noise, as from vibration
• Finnish: kolina — intermittent noise, as from vibration
• French: ronron — intermittent noise, as from vibration
• French: vrombissement — intermittent noise, as from vibration
• Italian: vibrazione — intermittent noise, as from vibration
• Italian: stridio — intermittent noise, as from vibration
• Italian: cigolio — intermittent noise, as from vibration
• Portuguese: zumbido — intermittent noise, as from vibration
• Spanish: castañeteo — intermittent noise, as from vibration
• Finnish: chattailu — degree of communication between suspects
• Albanian: bërbëlitje — talk idly
• Arabic: هَذَى (haḏā) — talk idly
• Bulgarian: бърборя (bǎrborja) — talk idly
• Bulgarian: бъбря (bǎbrja) — talk idly
• Bulgarian: дърдоря (dǎrdorja) — talk idly
• Chinese Mandarin: 唠叨 — talk idly
• Danish: hyggesnakke — talk idly
• Danish: plapre — talk idly
• Danish: sludre — talk idly
• Danish: småsnakke — talk idly
• Danish: snakke — talk idly
• Dutch: babbelen — talk idly
• Dutch: kletsen — talk idly
• Dutch: kwebbelen — talk idly
• Dutch: ouwehoeren — talk idly
• Dutch: over koetjes en kalfjes praten — talk idly
• Esperanto: babili — talk idly
• Finnish: jutella — talk idly
• Finnish: lörpötellä — talk idly
• Finnish: rupatella — talk idly
• Finnish: turista — talk idly
• French: bavarder — talk idly
• French: blablater — talk idly
• French: causer — talk idly
• French: jacasser — talk idly
• French: lantiponner — talk idly
• French: papoter — talk idly
• Galician: parolar — talk idly
• German: labern — talk idly
• German: plaudern — talk idly
• German: plappern — talk idly
• German: schwafeln — talk idly
• German: schwatzen — talk idly
• German: schwätzen — talk idly
• Ancient Greek: καταστωμύλλομαι (katastōmúllomai) — talk idly
• Ancient Greek: λαλέω (laléō) — talk idly
• Ancient Greek: στωμύλλω (stōmúllō) — talk idly
• Ancient Greek: θρυλέω (thruléō) — talk idly
• Hebrew: קשקש — talk idly
• Hebrew: טָרָרָם (táraram) — talk idly
• Hindi: बकना (baknā) — talk idly
• Hungarian: fecseg — talk idly
• Hungarian: csacsog — talk idly
• Hungarian: cseveg — talk idly
• Hungarian: cseverészik — talk idly
• Indonesian: mengoceh — talk idly
• Italian: blaterare — talk idly
• Italian: chiacchierare — talk idly
• Central Kurdish: چەنەچەن کردن (çeneçen kirdin) — talk idly
• Latin: blaterō — talk idly
• Latin: garriō — talk idly
• Māori: kapekapetau — talk idly
• Māori: kōtetetete — talk idly
• Māori: pātihau — talk idly
• Māori: tarawhete — talk idly
• Old English: ġeorran — talk idly
• Polish: bajczyć — talk idly
• Portuguese: bater papo — talk idly
• Portuguese: papear — talk idly
• Quechua: chanrararay — talk idly
• Russian: болта́ть (boltátʹ) — talk idly
• Russian: трепа́ться (trepátʹsja) — talk idly
• Sanskrit: लपति (lapati) — talk idly
• Serbo-Croatian: бр̀бљати — talk idly
• Serbo-Croatian: br̀bljati — talk idly
• Slovene: brbljati — talk idly
• Spanish: cotorrear — talk idly
• Spanish: parlar — talk idly
• Spanish: parlotear — talk idly
• Spanish: paular — talk idly
• Spanish: charlatanear — talk idly
• Swedish: kallprata — talk idly
• Telugu: వాగు (vāgu) — talk idly
• Volapük: luspikön — talk idly
• Volapük: luspikotön — talk idly
• Bulgarian: дрънча (drǎnča) — make a chattering noise
• Danish: klapre — make a chattering noise
• Dutch: ratelen — make a chattering noise
• Dutch: klapperen — make a chattering noise
• Dutch: klepperen — make a chattering noise
• Finnish: kalista — make a chattering noise
• French: claquer — make a chattering noise
• French: gazouiller — make a chattering noise
• Galician: acanear — make a chattering noise
• German: klappern — make a chattering noise
• Ancient Greek: βαμβαίνω (bambaínō) — make a chattering noise
• Ancient Greek: ἀραβέω (arabéō) — make a chattering noise
• Hungarian: vacog — make a chattering noise
• Icelandic: glamra — make a chattering noise
• Māori: tetetete — make a chattering noise
• Māori: hūkeke — make a chattering noise
• Māori: korokī — make a chattering noise
• Norman: saqu'ter — make a chattering noise
• Polish: szczękać (zębami) — make a chattering noise
• Polish: szczęknąć (zębami) — make a chattering noise
• Russian: стуча́ть зуба́ми (stučátʹ zubámi) — make a chattering noise
• Scottish Gaelic: bi a' snagadaich — make a chattering noise
• Spanish: dentellar — make a chattering noise
• Spanish: castañetear — make a chattering noise
• Spanish: castañear — make a chattering noise
• Spanish: carraquear — make a chattering noise
• Swedish: skallra — make a chattering noise
• Swedish: skramla — make a chattering noise
• Swedish: tjattra — make a chattering noise
• Dutch: roezemoezen — to utter sounds that are largely inarticulate
• Finnish: mongertaa — to utter sounds that are largely inarticulate
• French: baragouiner — to utter sounds that are largely inarticulate
• French: marmonner — to utter sounds that are largely inarticulate
• German: kauderwelschen — to utter sounds that are largely inarticulate
• German: kaudern — to utter sounds that are largely inarticulate
• Māori: pātīhau — to utter sounds that are largely inarticulate