yammer

UK /ˈjæm.ə/ US /ˈjæm.ɚ/
verb 5noun 3

Definitions

verb

1

To complain peevishly.

2

To talk loudly and persistently.

3

To repeat on and on, usually loudly or in complaint.

4

To 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.

5

to repeatedly call someone's name.

noun

1

The 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.

2

A 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.

3

One who yammers.

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