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noun

Chatterer n.

A prater; an idle talker.

(Zool.) A bird of the family Ampelidae so called from its monotonous note. The Bohemion chatterer (Ampelis garrulus) inhabits the arctic regions of both continents. In America the cedar bird is a more common species. See Bohemian chatterer, and Cedar bird.

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Etymology of 'Chatterer'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Chatterer" Quotes from Famous Books

... Oh, if this chatterer Would maim his foolish tongue between his teeth Where it has sinned so long all unreproved— His idle tongue that is not silenced yet!— Then would he have revenge, for that alone Has ...

— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. IX - Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig • Various

... Europe, the shape of the leaf of an elm, and the chances are ninety to one that he cannot tell you; and yet he will be voluble of criticism on every painted landscape from Dresden to Madrid, and pretend to tell you whether they are like nature or not. Ask an enthusiastic chatterer in the Sistine Chapel how many ribs he has, and you get no answer; but it is odds that you do not get out of the door without his informing you that he considers such and such a figure ...

— Modern Painters Volume I (of V) • John Ruskin

... indebted to the Italians for the idea of newspapers. The title of their gazettas was, perhaps, derived from gazzera, a magpie or chatterer; or, more probably, from a farthing coin, peculiar to the city of Venice, called gazetta, which was the common price of the newspapers. Another etymologist is for deriving it from the Latin gaza, which would colloquially lengthen into gazetta, and signify a little treasury of news. The Spanish ...

— Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3) • Isaac D'Israeli

... foot. "Gueule-Dieu! 'twas he who pushed us on hither, and he has deserted us in the very middle of the job! Cowardly chatterer, with a slipper for ...

— Notre-Dame de Paris - The Hunchback of Notre Dame • Victor Hugo

... nature rose within me to proclaim the foolish chatterer as a prophet. So life was not as I had been taught—a painful struggle between good and evil. There was no such thing as evil; the senseless epithet was a libel upon Nature. Not through wearisome repression, but rather through joyous expression of ...

— Paul Kelver • Jerome Klapka, AKA Jerome K. Jerome

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