Chatter

chat′er, v.i. to talk idly or rapidly: to sound as the teeth when one shivers.— ns. Chatt′erbox , one who chatters or talks ince antly; Chatt′erer , one that chatters: an idle talker: a significant popular name applied to the birds of a small family of finch-like perching birds, as the Bohemian wax-wing and the cedar bird of America; Chatt′ering , noise like that made by a magpie, or by the striking together of the teeth: idle talk. [From the sound.]