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yatter

American

[yat-er] / ˈjæt ər /

verb (used without object)

to chatter or jabber.

noun

chatter; idle talk.

yatter British

/ ˈjætə, ˈjɑtər /

verb

to talk at length; chatter

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

continuous chatter

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of yatter

1865–70; perhaps ya(p) + (cha)tter

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I replied, for the woman's yatter, yatter easily vexed me, being still weak.

From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

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