chatter – English verb conjugation

Nominal Forms

Infinitive: to chatter
Participle: chattered
Gerund: chattering

Cognates

-

Indicative

Subjunctive

Conditional

Imperative

you	chatter
we	Let's chatter
you	chatter

Indicative

Conditional

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms

be loquacious; tattle; gossip

clepe, gossip

to communicate to someone else by means of speech

articulate, babble, blab, chat, converse, discuss, jabber, quethe, say, speak, talk, verbalize, yammer

to talk too much; to talk idly

babble, bat the breeze, blab, blabber, blather, chat, chew the fat, chew the rag, chinwag, chit-chat, chunner, clack, claver, clepe, drivel, gabble, gibber, go on, jabber, maunder, natter, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, rabbit, rabbit on, ramble, shoot the breeze, shoot the bull, shoot the shit, smatter, tattle, twaddle, waffle, wibble, witter, yabber, yack, yap, yatter

babble

chat, prattle, chitchat, gab, gossip, talk

Additional Information

Phrasal Verbs

Etymology

1. c.1225, chateren "to twitter, gossip," earlier cheateren, chiteren, of echoic origin. Chatterbox is 1774.
2. Etymology tree
3. Middle English cheteren, chiteren (Imitative)der.
4. Middle English chateren
5. English chatter
6. 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”). See: Frisian, Saterlandic 'tjoaterje', Dutch 'schateren', Dutch 'koeteren', German, old spelling 'kaudern', Danish 'kvidre'.

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