| 单词 | chatterer |
| 释义 | chatterer|ˈtʃætərə(r)|
[f. chatter v. + -er1.]
1. One who chatters; an idle and petty talker, prater, babbler, tattler, prattler.
1540R. Hyrde tr. Vives' Instr. Chr. Wom. i. xvi. (R.) They ment they were bablers and chatterers. 1693W. Robertson Phraseol. Gen. 193 A babbler, prater, chatterer or jangler; a man more full of words than wit. 1794Mathias Purs. Lit. (1798) 77 Mere London Divines..chatterers in booksellers shops. 1881Goldw. Smith Lect. & Ess. 161 A voluble and empty chatterer. 1884J. Parker Larger Ministry 51 A chatterer of other-world phrases.
2. The name of birds of the family Ampelidæ; esp. the Bohemian Chatterer or Waxwing (Ampelis garrula); in N. Amer. the Cedar-bird or Chatterer of Carolina (A. carolinensis or cedrorum).
1730Mortimer in Phil. Trans. XXXVI. 431 Garrulus Carolinensis, the Chatterer. 1768Pennant Brit. Zool. II. 508 The chatterer visits this kingdom at very uncertain times. 1863Spring Lapl. 279 There is no northern bird whose breeding habits have been shrouded in such mystery as the waxwing chatterer. 1863Bates Nat. Amazon iv. 71, I saw here for the first time the Sky-blue Chatterer (Ampelis Cotinga)..it is a dull, quiet bird. 1945Baker Austral. Lang. xii. 211 The Grey-crowned Babbler is known also as the..chatterer. 1963Austral. Encycl. I. 385/1 Babblers..commonly known as catbirds (or caties), chatterers, happy families [etc.]. |
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