(n.) 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.
Example Sentences:
(1) I have had the awe-inducing pleasure of standing alone among the giant trees, both sequoias and redwoods, and hearing nothing but the chatter of the squirrels and the high wind in the tallest branches.
(2) The selective kappa antagonists Mr1452 and Mr2266 significantly precipitated only urination and teeth chattering.
(3) Also note chatter of Bernanke stepping down next week (6-weeks early), if successor Yellen gained full Senate approval, allowing her to chair the December FOMC meeting.
(4) Rumours and allegations about excesses, corruption and infighting, mostly made anonymously, are impossible to verify, though Riyadh’s chattering classes have heard them all.
(5) caused a significant decrease in DA levels accompanied by typical withdrawal symptoms such as wet dog shakes and teeth-chattering.
(6) Those whose ears catch the idle chatter from the more indiscreet members of Ed’s office have let drop that the leader was reportedly “furious” with Andy for raising not-so-oblique criticisms of the ‘hush now’ approach to party policy, and he could face the chop.
(7) Culture secretary Sajid Javid has said that ticket touts are “classic entrepreneurs” and their detractors are the “chattering middle classes and champagne socialists, who have no interest in helping the common working man earn a decent living by acting as a middleman”.
(8) In three visits to the area over the last two weeks, almost all the voters I spoke to began each conversation by saying, unprompted, that they were concerned about immigration – the electrician complaining about wages being undercut by eastern European workers, the parents unable to get their offspring into local primary schools because immigrant children were taking up scarce places, the patients waiting for a GP appointment in a waiting room filled with foreign chatter.
(9) • Try to ignore the noise around you: the chatter, the parties, the reviews, the envy, the shame.
(10) Hollow-eyed children beg outside restaurants and cafes that hum with the chatter of shisha-smoking customers.
(11) To many shoppers – and I exclude here members of the chattering classes, who were always rather sniffy about Tesco – the company’s decline has been evident for some time, at least for the two years that its market share has been falling.
(12) Few people outside Moscow’s inner ring road may be able to tell their Parmigiano Reggiano from their Grana Padano, but it is not only the chattering classes who have suffered from the cheese ban.
(13) Of the 12 withdrawal signs scored, the only significant changes observed after ibogaine (compared with vehicle control) was a decrease in grooming (10 mg kg-1) and an increase in teeth chatter (5 mg kg-1).
(14) There has been inevitable chatter that Lewis is being lined up to replace MacLennan when he retires.
(15) There has been some pre-fight chatter that a commitment to God by Pacquiao has made him too polite to knock out opponents.
(16) At bedtime, he used to find the music and background chatter from his sisters' rooms comforting.
(17) The chatter was that Osborne, David Cameron and Boris Johnson were heading off for a private dinner tonight somewhere in Davos.
(18) The chatter around the sale was remarkably light on the "need for private investment in Royal Mail" (the government's mantra since 2010) and rather more concerned with share value.
(19) There is no sound apart from the chickens and chatter of voices, young and old.
(20) Similarly, attack and teeth-chattering have been shown to derive from different neural mechanisms, despite substantial overlap of both response areas.
Chatty
Definition:
(a.) Given to light, familiar talk; talkative.
(n.) A porous earthen pot used in India for cooling water, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) "It's like revisiting an old world," says Topley-Bird, who is droll and spacey where Tricky is hyperactively chatty.
(2) His show is called Chatty Man , which is a good title for Carr.
(3) He seemed disappointed, but was chatty and easy to get on with."
(4) This rather chatty narrative is based on spina bifida care experience, in Sheffield, Toronto, and Chicago.
(5) Inside there's a chatty column about a dilemma that irritates all New Yorkers – how to swipe your Metro card at the turnstiles of the subway.
(6) Musk has a reputation for being prickly but when I meet him at SpaceX , his headquarters west of Los Angeles, he is affable and chatty, cheerfully expounding on space exploration, climate change, Richard Branson and Hollywood.
(7) Leading actor Winner: Ben Whishaw – Richard II (The Hollow Crown) Derek Jacobi – Last Tango In Halifax Sean Bean – Accused (Tracie's Story) Toby Jones – The Girl Leading actress Winner: Sheridan Smith – Mrs Biggs Anne Reid – Last Tango In Halifax Rebecca Hall – Parade's End Sienna Miller – The Girl Supporting actor Winner: Simon Russell Beale – Henry IV Part 2 (The Hollow Crown) Peter Capaldi – The Hour Stephen Graham – Accused (Tracie's Story) Harry Lloyd – The Fear Supporting actress Winner: Olivia Colman – Accused (Mo's Story) Anastasia Hille – The Fear Imelda Staunton – The Girl Sarah Lancashire – Last Tango In Halifax Performance in an entertainment programme Winner: Alan Carr for Alan Carr: Chatty Man Graham Norton for The Graham Norton Show Ant and Dec for I'm a Celebrity … Get Me Out Of Here!
(8) One of Enoch Powell's most famous quips was prompted by an encounter with the resident House of Commons barber: a notoriously chatty character, who enjoyed treating captive clients to his views on politics and the state of the world.
(9) I listened alongside a chatty young Scottish Conservative from Stirling who wandered over to meet him with me, and so it is possible Fox may have simply assumed that I was another activist.
(10) Previously chatty and relaxed, he spoke in a loud and oddly deliberate voice.
(11) Rather at odds with the self-presentation of a chatty provincial housewife whose books just "pop up" out of nowhere is a forthcoming schedule that suggests 2011 might turn out to be an annus mirabilis in a life already rich in achievement.
(12) I hail a cab and the chatty driver asks what I've been up to this evening.
(13) • A new series of Chatty Man starts on Friday 27 April on Channel 4.
(14) So since the Fed is so chatty, do we know if Yellen believes in this stimulus?
(15) The volunteers at the West Cheshire food bank were “kind, helpful, chatty people”, he says.
(16) It shows their prowess in the wild," one chatty guide told the media.
(17) It is not, fair to say, as it is billed: the reporter – Amy Chozick, on the paper's media business beat – calls up on the off-chance of a revealing interview and, failing that, settles for tidbits from Wendi's chatty friends: "Through a family spokesman, Mrs Murdoch declined to be interviewed for this article, as did other members of the Murdoch family.
(18) Sometimes he was very chatty, sometimes he was very quiet – I always thought he should have been on the telly.
(19) The bar staff are super chatty, as are the regulars, the gents are still outside in the yard and the soundtrack is old northern soul and Johnny Cash.
(20) Chatty, well-informed staff add warmth to a slightly dour pub.