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yammer

UK/ˈjæm.ə//ˈjæm.ɚ/

yammer verb: to complain peevishly.

Verb

yammer (third-person singular simple present yammers, present participle yammering, simple past and past participle yammered)

  1. (intransitive) To complain peevishly.
    Synonyms:
    whine, grumble
  2. (intransitive) To talk loudly and persistently.
  3. (transitive) To repeat on and on, usually loudly or in complaint.
    Synonyms:
    prattle, babble, yak, yap
  4. (intransitive, rare) 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.1951, Isaac Asimov, ““The Merchant Princes”, chapter 17”, in Foundation, part V, Panther Books Ltd, published 1974, page 182
  5. (intransitive) to repeatedly call someone's name.

Noun

yammer (uncountable)

  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.1999, J. M. Coetzee, chapter 8, in Disgrace, Penguin, published 2000, pages 72–73
  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.1943, R. Sidney Bown, chapter 12, in Dave Dawson with the Flying Tigers, Akron, Ohio: Saalfield Publishing Company
  3. One who yammers.

yammer meaning in Urdu

yammer in Urdu

فریاد کشی, ماتم گزاری, چلانا, ماتم کرنا, مسلسل بولنا, شکایت کرنا

Synonyms of yammer

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Forms of yammer

third-person singular presentyammers
present participleyammering
past participleyammered
pastyammered

Origin of yammer

From Middle English ȝameren, ȝaumeren, yemeren, ȝomeren, from Old English ġeōmrian (“to lament”), from Proto-West Germanic *jāmarōn, from Proto-Germanic *jēmarōną (“to show misery or sadness”), from Proto-Germanic *jēmaraz (“miserable, sorrowful, sad”), from Proto-Indo-European *yem- (“to hold, match, defeat”). Reinforced by cognate Middle Dutch jammeren (modern Dutch jammeren), from the same ultimate origin. Cognate also with Scots yammer, Saterland Frisian jammerje, West Frisian jammerje, German Low German jammern, German jammern, Danish jamre, Norwegian jamre. Compare also Old Norse amra (“to howl, wail, yammer”).

Words formed from yammer

Words that rhyme with yammer

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Questions about yammer

What does yammer mean?
Yammer means to complain peevishly.
What is yammer in Urdu?
Yammer in Urdu is فریاد کشی, ماتم گزاری, چلانا. See Yammer meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is yammer?
Yammer can be a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce yammer?
Yammer is pronounced /ˈjæm.ə/ (UK).
What is the past tense of yammer?
The past tense of yammer is yammered.

Words near yammer in the dictionary

  1. yamless
  2. yamlike
  3. yamma
  4. yammas
  5. yammed
  6. yammer
  7. yammer on
  8. yammered
  9. yammered on
  10. yammerer
  11. yammerers

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