I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
idle chatter/talk/gossip etc
sb's teeth chatter (= hit together quickly because someone is cold or afraid )
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My teeth began to chatter, and I regretted leaving my jacket behind.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
away
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A teleprinter was chattering away in the corner.
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Janir rode in his carrier on our way home, chattering away in a language of his own invention.
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The girls began to chatter away .
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Miguel could hear Firebug chattering away .
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Oshkosh reverberated with the sound of 18 Wright Cyclone radial engines chattering away .
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Machinery was switched on and chattering away to itself.
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Small, informal groups of people are likely to chatter away nineteen-to-the-dozen.
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All sitting, chattering away like starlings.
on
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They chattered on among themselves, oblivious to the world at large, lovingly cared for in this cozy place.
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Charity let Mandy chatter on and on, offering no comment, her feelings frozen somewhere deep within her.
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I've been chattering on far too long.
■ NOUN
tooth
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Can't you hear her teeth chattering in the night?
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She shivered and her teeth chattered .
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My teeth are chattering like mad.
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My teeth were chattering , and the juice from the pear was dripping over my red wool mittens.
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My teeth were still chattering when the phone rang.
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His teeth chattered as he stood in front of the table.
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Doug's teeth begin to chatter .
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Wyatt was there, too, and Cyril as well, their teeth chattering in shock.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I could hear the boys chattering away in the other room.
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Michele sat there chattering about her minor ailments to anyone who would listen.
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The tiny gray-haired woman chattered continuously as she demonstrated how to make a tortilla.
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They poured out of the school chattering with their friends.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A few minutes later Dexter watched the printer chatter out around two and a half thousand names and addresses.
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A teleprinter was chattering away in the corner.
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Its automatic weapons chatter nightly, and mortars crump in reply.
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Mitchell had forgotten she chattered a lot, this inflated gaiety, whenever she was hyper or high.
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People chattering, doors opening and closing, loud male greetings, the level of noise rising.
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The radio suddenly chatters into life; the phone rings ....
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
constant
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There was a constant hum of chatter , and the occasional laugh.
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These hot spots manifest them-selves in the nearly constant internal chatter that follows us throughout the day.
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Jane's constant chatter was beginning to annoy him.
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Cook drove clumsily, keeping up a constant stream of chatter .
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Arnold talks to the crowd, but he doesn't have Trevino's constant chatter .
idle
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And so it acquired its contemporary, pejorative connotation of idle chatter .
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Believe me, this is not idle chatter .
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As a family the Hendrys didn't hold with interrupting the serious business of eating with idle chatter .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I woke up to the chatter of helicopters flying overhead.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Audrey had arrived late, and her twittering, terrified, inept chatter was the most touching touch of all.
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His job as a government lobbyist for the Federal Communications Commission depends on nonstop chatter .
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I think many users are starting to get very tired of all the spamming and useless chatter that is happening on Usenet.
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Jane's constant chatter was beginning to annoy him.
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Now, off with your clothes and no more chatter .
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The sound came back and I heard the chatter on the radio.
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Yet I can not share in the triumphalist chatter of the past three days, so reminiscent of 1987.