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chatter
verb [I] (TALK/NOISE) /ˈtʃæt.ər/
/ˈtʃæt̬.ɚ/ Definition
› to talk for a long time about things that are not important: She spent the morning chattering away to her friends. He chattered on about nothing in particular.Informal talking and conversation › If animals chatter, they make quick repeated noises: The gun shot made the monkeys chatter in alarm.Animal (non-human) sounds
(Definition of chatter verb (TALK/NOISE) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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