chattery

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adjective

Tending or inclined to chatter.

OriginEnglish chatter ← Middle English chateren →
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Meanings

adjectivechattery (comparative more chattery, superlative most chattery)

comparative more chattery · superlative most chattery

  1. Tending or inclined to chatter.

    Some of the women were sincere. Some were nervous. Some were fake and glib and chattery. Some stumbled. At least one was manic.

    1988 January 29, S.L. Wisenberg, “Sorority Rush”, in Chicago Reader, Chicago, I.L.: Chicago Reader, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Dec 2023
nounchattery (uncountable)
  1. humorousrareuncountableChatter, idle talk.

    His press secretary, Jen Psaki, under a burden greater than that of any press secretary of recent times, is shortly to abandon the post, wandering off to the vastly greater paid and vastly less demanding pastures of cable television chattery.

    2022 April 20, Rex Murphy, “Rex Murphy: The United States is adrift and Joe Biden is no captain”, in National Post, Toronto, Ont.: Postmedia Network Canada Corp., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 20 Nov 2024

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
garrulousloquacioustalkativevoluble

Origin

  1. Middle Englishcheteren, chiteren (Imitative)
  2. Middle Englishchateren
  3. Englishchatter
  4. Englishchattery

From chatter + -y.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

trachyteratchety
Cite this entry
APA

chattery. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/chattery

MLA

“chattery.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/chattery. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “chattery,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/chattery.

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