chatterer
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.32 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A person who chatters; a chatterbox.
Example Sentences
- "Yes, I am a chatterer, indeed, to interrupt you so often, Monsieur."
- "“I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, the gorged dowagers,[…]the chlorotic squatters on huge yachts, the speed-mad fugitives from the furies of ennui, the neurotic victims of mental cirrhosus,[…]!”"
- "Indeed the difficulty was to get him to stop talking, for, like all squirrels, he was a chatterer."
- "Why is the variegated chatterer of South America also called the bell-bird?"
- "The flight of the Chatterer bears much resemblance to that of the starling."
- "In most parts of tropical America we may always find some species of woodpecker[,] tanager, bush-shrike, chatterer, trogon, toucan, cuckoo, and tyrant-flycatcher; and a few days' active search will produce more variety than can be here met with in as many months."
Etymology
Etymology tree Middle English cheteren, chiteren (Imitative)der. Middle English chateren English chatter English -er English chatterer From chatter + -er.