the rapid series of noises made by the parts of a machine
the high-pitched continuing noise made by animals (birds or monkeys)
Verb:
click repeatedly or uncontrollably;"Chattering teeth"
cut unevenly with a chattering tool
talk socially without exchanging too much information;"the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze"
speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
make noise as if chattering away;"The magpies were chattering in the trees"
中英词源
chatter 聊天
来自chat. -er，表反复。
chatter (v.)
early 13c., chateren "to twitter, gossip," earlier cheateren, chiteren, of echoic origin. Compare Dutch koeteren "jabber," Danish kvidre "twitter, chirp." Related: Chattered; chattering. Phrase chattering class in use by 1893, with a reference perhaps from 1843:
Such was the most interesting side of the fatal event to that idle chattering class of London life to whom the collision of heaven and earth were important only as affording matter for "news!" [Catherine Grace F. Gore ("Mrs. Gore"), "The Banker"s Wife," 1843]
