Verb: yatter ya-tu(r)
Usage: Brit, informal
Usage: informal
Usage: Brit, informal
- Speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
"The old man yattered on about the weather";
- chatter, piffle [informal], palaver [informal], prate, tittle-tattle, twaddle [informal], clack [informal], maunder, prattle, blab [informal], gibber, tattle, blabber [informal], gabble, vapour [Brit, Cdn], vapor [US], rabbit [Brit, informal], jibber-jabber, witter [Brit, informal], twattle [UK, dialect], yabber [informal]
Usage: informal
- Rapid, continuous, and often trivial talk or communication
"The constant yakety-yatter from the next room made it hard to concentrate";
- yak [informal], yack [informal], yakety-yak [informal], chatter, yackety-yak [informal]
Derived forms: yattered, yattering, yatters
Type of: mouth, speak, talk, talking, utter, verbalise [Brit], verbalize