Synonyms of the word

chatter

• n. Talk, especially meaningless or unimportant talk.
• n. The sound of talking.
• n. The sound made by a magpie.
• n. An intermittent noise, as from vibration.
• n. In national security, the degree of communication between suspect groups and individuals, used to gauge…
• v. (intransitive) To talk idly.
• v. (intransitive) Of teeth, machinery, etc, to make a noise by rapid collisions.
• v. To utter sounds which somewhat resemble language, but are inarticulate and indistinct.
• n. one who chats.
• n. (Internet) a user of chat rooms.

blab

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To tell tales; to gossip without reserve or discretion.
• n. One who blabs; a babbler; a telltale; a gossip or gossiper.

blabber

• v. To blather; to talk foolishly or incoherently.
• v. To blab; to let out a secret.
• v. (Britain, obsolete) To stick out one's tongue.
• n. A person who blabs; a tattler; a telltale.

cackle

• n. The cry of a hen or goose, especially when laying an egg.
• n. A laugh resembling the cry of a hen or goose.
• v. (intransitive) To make a sharp, broken noise or cry, as a hen or goose does.
• v. (intransitive) To laugh with a broken sound similar to a hen's cry.
• v. (intransitive) To talk in a silly manner; to prattle.

chaffer

• v. (intransitive) To haggle or barter.
• v. To talk much and idly; to chatter.
• n. bargaining; merchandise.
• n. (agriculture) The upper sieve of a cleaning shoe in a combine harvester, where chaff is removed.

chat

• v. To be engaged in informal conversation.
• v. To talk more than a few words.
• v. (transitive) To talk of; to discuss.
• v. To exchange text or voice messages in real time through a computer network, as if having a face-to-face…
• n. (uncountable) Informal conversation.
• n. A conversation to stop an argument or settle situations.
• n. (totum pro parte, always with definite article, video games) The entirety of users in a chatroom or a…
• n. An exchange of text or voice messages in real time through a computer network, resembling a face-to-face…
• n. Any of various small Old World passerine birds in the muscicapid tribe Saxicolini or subfamily Saxicolinae…
• n. Any of several small Australian honeyeaters in the genus Epthianura.
• n. A small potato, such as is given to swine.
• n. (mining, local use) Mining waste from lead and zinc mines.
• n. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand, WWI military slang) A louse (small, parasitic insect).
• n. Alternative form of chaat.

chattering

• v. present participle of chatter.
• n. A noise that chatters.
• n. Output fluctuation before reaching a stable condition.

chitchat

• n. Alternative spelling of chit-chat.
• v. Alternative spelling of chit-chat.

clack

• n. An abrupt, sharp sound, especially one made by two hard objects colliding repetitively; a sound midway…
• n. Anything that causes a clacking noise, such as the clapper of a mill, or a clack valve.
• n. Clatter; prattle.
• v. (intransitive) To make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click.
• v. (transitive) To cause to make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click.
• v. To chatter or babble; to utter rapidly without consideration.
• v. (Britain) To cut the sheep's mark off (wool), to make the wool weigh less and thus yield less duty.

claver

• n. (Britain, Scotland, dialect) frivolous or nonsensical talk; prattle; chatter.
• v. to gossip or chit-chat.
• n. Alternative form of clover.

click

• n. A brief, sharp, not particularly loud, relatively high-pitched sound produced by the impact of something…
• n. (phonetics) An ingressive sound made by coarticulating a velar or uvular closure with another closure.
• n. Sound made by a dolphin.
• n. The act of operating a switch, etc., so that it clicks.
• n. The act of pressing a button on a computer mouse, both as a physical act and a reaction in the software.
• v. (transitive) To cause to make a click; to operate (a switch, etc) so that it makes a click.
• v. (transitive, computing) (direct and indirect) To press and release (a button on a computer mouse).
• v. (transitive, computing) To select a software item using, usually, but not always, the pressing of a mouse…
• v. (transitive, computing, advertising) To visit a web site.
• v. (intransitive, computing) To navigate by clicking a mouse button.
• v. (intransitive) To emit a click.
• v. (intransitive) To click the left button of a computer mouse while pointing.
• v. (intransitive) To make sense suddenly.
• v. (intransitive) To get on well.
• v. (dated, intransitive) To tick.
• interj. The sound of a click.
• n. Alternative spelling of klick.
• n. A detent, pawl, or ratchet, such as that which catches the cogs of a ratchet wheel to prevent backward…
• n. (Britain, dialect) The latch of a door.
• v. (obsolete) To snatch.
• n. (US) Misspelling of clique.
• v. (US) Misspelling of clique.

confab

• v. To speak casually with; to chat.
• n. A casual talk or chat.

confabulate

• v. (intransitive) To speak casually with; to chat.
• v. (intransitive) To confer.
• v. (intransitive, transitive, psychology) To fabricate memories in order to fill gaps in one's memory.

converse

• v. (formal, intransitive) To talk; to engage in conversation.
• v. To keep company; to hold intimate intercourse; to commune; followed by with.
• v. (obsolete) To have knowledge of (a thing), from long intercourse or study.
• n. (now literary) Familiar discourse; free interchange of thoughts or views; conversation; chat.
• adj. Opposite; reversed in order or relation; reciprocal.
• n. The opposite or reverse.
• n. (logic) Of a proposition or theorem of the form: given that "If A is true, then B is true", then "If B…
• n. (semantics) One of a pair of terms that name or describe a relationship from opposite perspectives; converse…

cut

• adj. (participial adjective) Having been cut.
• adj. Reduced.
• adj. Omitted from a literary or musical work.
• adj. (of a gem) Carved into a shape; not raw.
• adj. (cricket, of a shot) Played with a horizontal bat to hit the ball backward of point.
• adj. (bodybuilding) Having muscular definition in which individual groups of muscle fibers stand out among…
• adj. (informal) Circumcised or having been the subject of female genital mutilation.
• adj. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Emotionally hurt.
• adj. Eliminated from consideration during a recruitment drive.
• adj. Removed from a team roster.
• adj. (New Zealand) Intoxicated as a result of drugs or alcohol.
• n. An opening resulting from cutting.
• n. The act of cutting.
• n. The result of cutting.
• n. A notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging; a furrow; a groove.
• n. (specifically) An artificial navigation as distingished from a navigable river.
• n. A share or portion.
• n. (cricket) A batsman's shot played with a swinging motion of the bat, to hit the ball backward of point.
• n. (cricket) Sideways movement of the ball through the air caused by a fast bowler imparting spin to the…
• n. (sports) In lawn tennis, etc., a slanting stroke causing the ball to spin and bound irregularly; also,…
• n. (golf) In a strokeplay competition, the early elimination of those players who have not then attained…
• n. (theater) A passage omitted or to be omitted from a play.
• n. (film) A particular version or edit of a film.
• n. The act or right of dividing a deck of playing cards.
• n. The manner or style a garment etc. is fashioned in.
• n. A slab, especially of meat.
• n. (fencing) An attack made with a chopping motion of the blade, landing with its edge or point.
• n. A deliberate snub, typically a refusal to return a bow or other acknowledgement of acquaintance.
• n. A definable part, such as an individual song, of a recording, particularly of commercial records, audio…
• n. (archaeology) A truncation, a context that represents a moment in time when other archaeological deposits…
• n. A haircut.
• n. (graph theory) The partition of a graph’s vertices into two subgroups.
• n. A string of railway cars coupled together.
• n. An engraved block or plate; the impression from such an engraving.
• n. (obsolete) A common workhorse; a gelding.
• n. (slang, dated) The failure of a college officer or student to be present at any appointed exercise.
• n. A skein of yarn.
• v. (heading, transitive) To incise, to cut into the surface of something.
• v. (intransitive) To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument.
• v. (transitive, heading, social) To separate, remove, reject or reduce.
• v. (intransitive, film, audio, usually as imperative) To cease recording activities.
• v. (transitive, film) To edit a film by selecting takes from original footage.
• v. (transitive, computing) To remove and place in memory for later use.
• v. (intransitive) To enter a queue in the wrong place.
• v. (intransitive) To intersect or cross in such a way as to divide in half or nearly so.
• v. (transitive, cricket) To make the ball spin sideways by running one's fingers down the side of the ball…
• v. (transitive, cricket) To deflect (a bowled ball) to the off, with a chopping movement of the bat.
• v. (intransitive) To change direction suddenly.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To divide a pack of playing cards into two.
• v. (transitive, slang) To write.
• v. (transitive, slang) To dilute or adulterate a recreational drug.
• v. (transitive) To exhibit (a quality).
• v. (transitive) To stop or disengage.
• v. (sports) To drive (a ball) to one side, as by (in billiards or croquet) hitting it fine with another ball,…

discourse

• n. (uncountable, archaic) Verbal exchange, conversation.
• n. (uncountable) Expression in words, either speech or writing.
• n. (countable) A formal lengthy exposition of some subject, either spoken or written.
• n. (countable) Any rational expression, reason.
• n. (social sciences, countable) An institutionalized way of thinking, a social boundary defining what can…
• n. (obsolete) Dealing; transaction.
• v. (intransitive) To engage in discussion or conversation; to converse.
• v. (intransitive) To write or speak formally and at length.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To debate.
• v. To exercise reason; to employ the mind in judging and inferring; to reason.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To produce or emit (musical sounds).

gabble

• v. To talk fast, idly, foolishly, or without meaning.
• v. To utter inarticulate sounds with rapidity.
• n. Confused or unintelligible speech.

gibber

• n. Gibberish, unintelligible speech.
• v. To jabber, talk rapidly and unintelligibly or incoherently.
• n. A boulder, a stone.
• n. A balky horse.

go

• v. To move.
• v. (intransitive, chiefly of a machine) To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).
• v. (intransitive) To start; to begin (an action or process).
• v. (intransitive) To take a turn, especially in a game.
• v. (intransitive) To attend.
• v. To proceed.
• v. To follow or travel along (a path).
• v. (intransitive) To extend (from one point in time or space to another).
• v. (intransitive) To lead (to a place); to give access to.
• v. (copula) To become. (The adjective that follows usually describes a negative state.).
• v. To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as.
• v. (intransitive) To continuously or habitually be in a state.
• v. To come to (a certain condition or state).
• v. (intransitive) To change (from one value to another).
• v. To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).
• v. (intransitive) To tend (toward a result).
• v. To contribute to a (specified) end product or result.
• v. To pass, to be used up.
• v. (intransitive) To die.
• v. (intransitive) To be discarded.
• v. (intransitive, cricket) To be lost or out.
• v. To break down or apart.
• v. (intransitive) To be sold.
• v. (intransitive) To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time.
• v. (transitive, sports) To have a certain record.
• v. To be authoritative, accepted, or valid.
• v. To say (something), to make a sound.
• v. To be expressed or composed (a certain way).
• v. (intransitive) To resort (to).
• v. To apply or subject oneself to.
• v. To fit (in a place, or together with something).
• v. (intransitive) To date.
• v. To attack.
• v. To be in general; to be usually.
• v. (transitive) To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of.
• v. (transitive) To yield or weigh.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To enjoy. (Compare go for.).
• v. (intransitive, colloquial) To urinate or defecate.
• n. (uncommon) The act of going.
• n. A turn at something, or in something (e.g. a game).
• n. An attempt, a try.
• n. An approval or permission to do something, or that which has been approved.
• n. An act; the working or operation.
• n. (slang, dated) A circumstance or occurrence; an incident.
• n. (dated) The fashion or mode.
• n. (dated) Noisy merriment.
• n. (slang, archaic) A glass of spirits; a quantity of spirits.
• n. Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance.
• n. (cribbage) The situation where a player cannot play a card which will not carry the aggregate count above…
• n. A period of activity.
• n. (obsolete, British slang) A dandy; a fashionable person.
• n. (board games) A strategic board game, originally from China, in which two players (black and white) attempt…

gossip

• n. Someone who likes to talk about someone else’s private or personal business.
• n. Idle talk about someone’s private or personal matters, especially someone not present.
• n. A genre in contemporary media, usually focused on the personal affairs of celebrities.
• n. (obsolete) A sponsor; a godfather or godmother.
• v. To talk about someone else's private or personal business, especially in a way that spreads the information.
• v. To talk idly.

jaw

• n. One of the bones, usually bearing teeth, which form the framework of the mouth.
• n. The part of the face below the mouth.
• n. (figuratively) Anything resembling the jaw of an animal in form or action; especially plural, the mouth…
• n. A notch or opening.
• n. A notched or forked part, adapted for holding an object in place.
• n. One of a pair of opposing parts which are movable towards or from each other, for grasping or crushing…
• n. (nautical) The inner end of a boom or gaff, hollowed in a half circle so as to move freely on a mast.
• n. (slang, dated) Impudent or abusive talk.
• n. (slang) Axle guard.
• n. (snooker) The curved part of the cushion marking the entry to the pocket.
• v. (transitive) To assail or abuse by scolding.
• v. (intransitive) To scold; to clamor.
• v. (intransitive, informal) To talk; to converse.
• v. (snooker, transitive, intransitive) (of a ball) To stick in the jaws of a pocket.
• adj. (used in certain set phrases like jaw harp, jaw harpist and jaw's-trump).

maunder

• v. To speak in a disorganized or desultory manner; to babble or prattle.
• v. To wander or walk aimlessly.
• n. (obsolete) A beggar.

mouth

• n. (anatomy) The opening of a creature through which food is ingested.
• n. The end of a river out of which water flows into a sea or other large body of water.
• n. An outlet, aperture or orifice.
• n. (slang) A loud or overly talkative person.
• n. (saddlery) The crosspiece of a bridle bit, which enters the mouth of an animal.
• n. (obsolete) A principal speaker; one who utters the common opinion; a mouthpiece.
• n. (obsolete) Cry; voice.
• n. (obsolete) Speech; language; testimony.
• n. (obsolete) A wry face; a grimace; a mow.
• v. (transitive) To speak; to utter.
• v. (transitive) To make the actions of speech, without producing sound.
• v. (transitive) To pick up or handle with the lips or mouth, but not chew or swallow.
• v. (obsolete) To take into the mouth; to seize or grind with the mouth or teeth; to chew; to devour.
• v. (obsolete) To form or cleanse with the mouth; to lick, as a bear licks her cub.
• v. (obsolete) To make mouths at.

natter

• v. (colloquial) To talk casually; to discuss unimportant matters.
• v. (Scotland) To nag.
• n. (colloquial) Mindless and irrelevant chatter.

noise

• n. Various sounds, usually unwanted or unpleasant.
• n. Sound or signal generated by random fluctuations.
• n. (technology) Unwanted part of a signal. (Signal to noise ratio).
• n. (genetics) The measured level of variation in gene expression among cells, regardless of source, within…
• n. Rumour or complaint.
• n. (obsolete) Music, in general; a concert; also, a company of musicians; a band.
• n. (music) A genre of rock music that uses static and other non-musical sounds, also influenced by art rock.
• v. (intransitive) To make a noise; to sound.
• v. (transitive) To spread news of; to spread as rumor or gossip.

palaver

• n. (Africa) A village council meeting, a folkmoot.
• n. Talk, especially unnecessary talk, fuss.
• n. A meeting at which there is much talk; a debate, a moot.
• n. (informal) Disagreement.
• v. To discuss with much talk.

piffle

• n. Nonsense, foolish talk.
• v. To act or speak in a futile, ineffective, or nonsensical manner.
• v. To waste, to fritter away.
• v. (dated) To be squeamish or delicate.

prate

• n. Talk to little purpose; trifling talk; unmeaningful loquacity.
• v. To talk much and to little purpose; to chatter; to be loquacious; to speak foolishly; to babble.

prattle

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To speak incessantly and in a childish manner; to babble.
• n. Silly, childish, talk; babble.

sound

• adj. Healthy.
• adj. Complete, solid, or secure.
• adj. (mathematics, logic) Having the property of soundness.
• adj. (Britain, slang) Good; acceptable; decent.
• adj. (of sleep) Quiet and deep. Sound asleep means sleeping peacefully, often deeply.
• adj. Heavy; laid on with force.
• adj. Founded in law; legal; valid; not defective.
• adv. Soundly.
• interj. (Britain, slang) Yes; used to show agreement or understanding, generally without much enthusiasm.
• n. A sensation perceived by the ear caused by the vibration of air or some other medium.
• n. A vibration capable of causing such sensations.
• n. (music) A distinctive style and sonority of a particular musician, orchestra etc.
• n. Noise without meaning; empty noise.
• v. (intransitive) To produce a sound.
• v. (copulative) To convey an impression by one's sound.
• v. (intransitive) To be conveyed in sound; to be spread or published; to convey intelligence by sound.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To resound.
• v. (intransitive, law, often with in) To arise or to be recognizable as arising in or from a particular area…
• v. (transitive) To cause to produce a sound.
• v. (transitive, phonetics, of a vowel or consonant) To pronounce.
• n. (geography) A long narrow inlet, or a strait between the mainland and an island; also, a strait connecting…
• n. The air bladder of a fish.
• n. A cuttlefish.
• v. (intransitive) Dive downwards, used of a whale.
• v. To ascertain, or try to ascertain, the thoughts, motives, and purposes of (a person); to examine; to try;…
• v. Test; ascertain the depth of water with a sounding line or other device.
• v. (medicine) To examine with the instrument called a sound or sonde, or by auscultation or percussion.
• n. (medicine) An instrument for probing or dilating; a sonde.
• n. A long, thin probe for sounding body cavities or canals such as the urethra.

speak

• v. (intransitive) To communicate with one's voice, to say words out loud.
• v. (intransitive) To have a conversation.
• v. (by extension) To communicate or converse by some means other than orally, such as writing or facial expressions.
• v. (intransitive) To deliver a message to a group; to deliver a speech.
• v. (transitive) To be able to communicate in a language.
• v. (transitive) To utter.
• v. (transitive) To communicate (some fact or feeling); to bespeak, to indicate.
• v. (informal, transitive, sometimes humorous) To understand (as though it were a language).
• v. (intransitive) To produce a sound; to sound.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To address; to accost; to speak to.
• n. language, jargon, or terminology used uniquely in a particular environment or group.
• n. Speach, conversation.
• n. (dated) a low class bar, a speakeasy.

talk

• n. A conversation or discussion; usually serious, but informal.
• n. A lecture.
• n. (preceded by the; often qualified by a following of) A major topic of social discussion.
• n. (preceded by the) A customary conversation by parent(s) or guardian(s) with their (often teenaged) child…
• n. (uncountable, not preceded by an article) Empty boasting, promises or claims.
• n. Meeting to discuss a particular matter.
• v. (transitive) To communicate, usually by means of speech.
• v. (transitive, informal) To discuss.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To confess, especially implicating others.
• v. (intransitive) To criticize someone for something of which one is guilty oneself.
• v. (intransitive) To gossip; to create scandal.

talking

• n. The action of the verb talk.
• v. present participle of talk.

tattle

• v. (intransitive, pejorative) To report others' wrongdoings or violations; to tell on somebody; to gossip…
• v. (intransitive) To chatter.
• n. A tattletale.
• n. Gossip; idle talk.

tittle-tattle

• n. petty, idle gossip.
• n. An idle, trifling talker; a gossip.
• v. to engage in such gossip.
• v. to spread gossip.

twaddle

• n. (uncountable) Empty or silly idle talk or writing; nonsense, rubbish.
• n. (countable) One who twaddles; a twaddler.
• v. To talk or write nonsense; to prattle.

utter

• adj. (now poetic, literary) Outer; furthest out, most remote.
• adj. (obsolete) Outward.
• adj. Absolute, unconditional, total, complete.
• v. (transitive) To say.
• v. (transitive) To use the voice.
• v. (transitive) To make speech sounds which may or may not have an actual language involved.
• v. (transitive) To make (a noise).
• v. (law, transitive) To put counterfeit money, etc., into circulation.
• adv. (obsolete) Further out; further away, outside.

verbalise

• v. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of verbalize.

verbalize

• v. To speak or to use words to express.
• v. (grammar) To adapt a word of another part of speech as a verb.

visit

• v. (transitive) Of God: to appear to (someone) to comfort, bless, or chastise or punish them. (Now generally…
• v. (transitive) To habitually go to (someone in distress, sickness etc.) to comfort them. (Now generally…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To go and meet (a person) as an act of friendliness or sociability.
• v. (transitive, now rare) To punish, to inflict harm upon (someone or something).
• v. (transitive) Of a sickness, misfortune etc.: to afflict (someone).
• v. (transitive) To inflict punishment, vengeance for (an offense) on or upon someone.
• v. (transitive) To go to (a shrine, temple etc.) for worship. (Now generally merged into later senses, below…
• v. (transitive) To go to (a place) for pleasure, on an errand, etc.
• n. A single act of visiting.
• n. (medicine, insurance) A meeting with a doctor at their surgery or the doctor's at one's home.

yack

• n. chatter.
• n. Alternative form of yak.
• v. (slang) to vomit, usually because of intoxication.
• v. (colloquial) to talk incessantly.

yak

• n. An ox-like mammal native to the Himalayas and Tibet with dark, long, and silky hair, a horse-like tail,…
• v. (intransitive) To talk, particularly informally but persistently; to chatter or prattle.
• v. (intransitive) To vomit, usually as a result of excessive alcohol consumption.
• n. A talk, particular an informal one such as chattering.
• n. (slang) A laugh.
• n. Vomit.
• n. (slang) shorthand for kayak.

yakety-yak

• n. Alternative spelling of yackety-yak.
• v. Alternative spelling of yackety-yak.