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say it: CHAT-ur
chatter is a verb and noun meaning "click repeatedly or uncontrollably". It carries 8 recorded senses.
cut unevenly with a chattering tool
talk socially without exchanging too much information
“the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze”
the rapid series of noises made by the parts of a machine
the high-pitched continuing noise made by animals (birds or monkeys)
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for chatter come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.