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chattery

chattery adjective: tending or inclined to chatter.

Adjective

chattery (comparative more chattery, superlative most chattery)

  1. Tending or inclined to chatter.
    • Some of the women were sincere. Some were nervous. Some were fake and glib and chattery. Some stumbled. At least one was manic.1988 January 29, S.L. Wisenberg, “Sorority Rush”, in Chicago Reader, Chicago, I.L.: Chicago Reader, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Dec 2023

Noun

chattery (uncountable)

  1. (humorous, rare) Chatter, idle talk.
    • His press secretary, Jen Psaki, under a burden greater than that of any press secretary of recent times, is shortly to abandon the post, wandering off to the vastly greater paid and vastly less demanding pastures of cable television chattery.2022 April 20, Rex Murphy, “Rex Murphy: The United States is adrift and Joe Biden is no captain”, in National Post, Toronto, Ont.: Postmedia Network Canada Corp., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the...

Forms of chattery

comparativemore chattery
superlativemost chattery

Origin of chattery

From chatter + -y.

Questions about chattery

What does chattery mean?
Chattery means tending or inclined to chatter.
What part of speech is chattery?
Chattery can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near chattery in the dictionary

  1. chatters
  2. chattersome
  3. Chatterton
  4. Chattertonian
  5. Chattertons
  6. chattery
  7. Chatthi
  8. chatti
  9. Chattian
  10. chattie
  11. chattier

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