yammer

present singular third person yammers · participle present yammering · participle past yammered · past yammered

1. intransitiveTo complain peevishly.

   Synonyms: whine, grumble

2. intransitiveTo talk loudly and persistently.
3. transitiveTo repeat on and on, usually loudly or in complaint.

   Synonyms: prattle, babble, yak, yap

4. intransitiverareTo make an outcry; to clamor.

   It was a ship, but a whale to the Dark Nebula’s minnow; and on its side was the Spaceship-and-Sun of the Empire. Every alarm on the ship yammered hysterically.

   1951, Isaac Asimov, ““The Merchant Princes”, chapter 17”, in Foundation, part V, Panther Books Ltd, published 1974, page 182

5. intransitiveto repeatedly call someone's name.

1. uncountableThe act or noise of yammering.

   The house is just as he had imagined it would be: rubbishy furniture, a clutter of ornaments (porcelain shepherdesses, cowbells, an ostrich-feather flywhisk), the yammer of the radio, the cheeping of birds in cages, cats everywhere underfoot.

   1999, J. M. Coetzee, chapter 8, in Disgrace, Penguin, published 2000, pages 72–73

2. uncountableA loud noise.

   The ungodly scream of Jap wings in the wind, and the blood-chilling snarl and yammer of their aerial machine gun and aerial cannon fire was enough to make the very ground shake and tremble.

   1943, R. Sidney Bown, chapter 12, in Dave Dawson with the Flying Tigers, Akron, Ohio: Saalfield Publishing Company

3. uncountableOne who yammers.