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yammer
UK /ˈjæm.ə/ US /ˈjæm.ɚ/
verb 5noun 3
Collocations
4ADJ.
aerial, blood-chilling
VERB + YAMMER
hear
YAMMER + NOUN
meadows, radio
PREP.
in
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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Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
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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.
Wiktionary02
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
Wiktionary03
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.
Wiktionary04
You can hear animals yammer in the meadows.
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