CHATTER

[verb] [I] - (of people) to talk continuously and eagerly, or (figurative) (of animals or machines) to make quick repeated noisesShe spent the morning chattering away to her friends.It really irritates me the way he chatters on about nothing all the time.(figurative) The gun shot made the monkeys chatter in alarm.(figurative) The noise of old-fashioned computer printers chattering away gave her a headache.If your teeth chatter, they knock together repeatedly because you are very cold or frightened.I could hardly talk, my teeth were chattering so much.(UK informal disapproving) The chattering classes are well-educated middle class people who enjoy discussing political, cultural and social matters and who are willing to express an opinion about almost any subject.She hates the snobbery of the chattering classes.The prevailing view among the chattering classes is that the country has returned to its depressingly familiar path of post-war decline.