chattered
past simple and past participle ofchatter
chatter
verb[I]
uk/ˈtʃæt.ər/us/ˈtʃæt̬.ɚ/chatterverb[I](TALK/NOISE)
totalkfor alongtimeabout things that are notimportant:
Shespentthemorningchatteringawayto herfriends.
He chatteredhappilyabout nothing inparticular.
to talk to someone
- talkA group of men were talking in the street.
- speakCould I speak to you privately?
- sayI couldn't hear what they were saying.
- chatWe were just chatting about the party.
- have a chatWe had a little chat over the garden wall.
- chatterThey spent the morning chattering away.
Ifanimalschatter, they makequick,repeatednoises:
Thegunshotmade themonkeyschatter inalarm.
Informal talking & conversation
- badinage
- banter
- bantering
- bants
- bloviate
- bull session
- buzz
- catch
- catch up withsomeone
- chinwag
- chit-chat
- discourse
- exchange
- heart-to-heart
- intercourse
- pass
- ultra-casual
- understand
- vox pop
- word-of-mouth
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Animal (non-human) sounds
chatterverb[I](TEETH)
Ifyourteethchatter, theyknocktogetherrepeatedlybecause you are verycoldorfrightened:
I couldhardlytalk, myteethwere chattering so much.
Making short, sudden movements
- aquiver
- convulse
- convulsion
- convulsive
- cringe
- flick
- jerkiness
- jerky
- jig
- jiggle
- jiggly
- pull away
- quiver
- shrink
- shudder
- squirm
- tremulous
- whip
- worry atsomething
- wriggle
Examplesofchattered
chattered
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
His small eyes glowed and burned with a sombre light, and his thick lips were writhed back from his teeth, which grinned andchatteredat us with half animal fury.
From theCambridge English Corpus
In the green zone, some partook of glasses of wine, while otherschatteredaway merrily.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.However, the animals could not speak and simply squawked,chatteredand roared in their own manner.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Some of the monkeys sat in trees andchatteredexcitedly, showing each other toothpaste, soap bars and bathroom utensils which they had grabbed.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.For a while, engineers were faced with what they calledchatteredmarks and devil's scratch in the inner epitrochoid surface.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Birdschatteredin the trees and big fish darted through the pellucid depths.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.At doses of 50-100mg/kg it produced only this peculiar symptomatology: the mice stood upright and pressed on each other's noses andchatteredtheir teeth.
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