chatter

Talk, especially meaningless or unimportant talk.

Although hardly coming under my theme, I cannot omit this: "Against a woman's chatter: Taste at night fasting a root of radish, that day the chatter cannot harm thee."

The sound of talking.

The vocalisations of a Eurasian magpie, Pica pica.

The vocalisations of various birds or other animals.

The hare cried and complained of the terrible February cold and the disgusting chatter of the owls[.]

At dawn and at sunset the howler monkeys screamed together and the parakeets broke into shrill chatter, but during the hot hours of the day only the full drone of insects, like the beat of a distant surf, filled the ear, while nothing moved amid the solemn vistas of stupendous trunks, fading away into the darkness which held us in.

An intermittent noise, as from vibration.

Proper brake adjustment will help to reduce the chatter.

To talk idly.

They knitted and chattered the whole time.

That teacheth trickes eleuen and twentie long, / To tame a ſhrew, and charme her chattering tongue.

To make a noise by rapid collisions.

He was so cold that his teeth were chattering.

The software in modern machine tools can often predict and prevent movements that would cause the cutting tool to chatter.

To utter sounds which somewhat resemble language, but are inarticulate and indistinct.

The jay makes answer, as the magpie chatters with delight.

Is your cat intently staring out the window at a bird on a branch and “chattering” in a kind of shaky, high-pitched, breathy way? If so, she is expressing excitement at what she's observing (or maybe the desire to attack what she sees as prey).

One who chats.

A user of livestream chat.

A user of chat rooms.

During the chat sessions, two outreach team members would engage in a conversation about the topic chosen for that event in the main chat room and entice other chatters to join in.