clattern.¹

Brit.

/ˈklatə/, U.S.

/ˈklædər/

Etymology: In 15th cent. clater , but possibly coeval with the verb of same form. Middle Dutch has clātere , Dutch klater , a rattle, and klateren to clatter, rattle, chatter. Sense 2 appears earliest in quots., and ought perhaps to stand first. The Old English clædur, cledr, cleadur (Epinal 218, etc.) ‘tabula qua a segitibus territantur aves’ appears to be connected, but is not phonetically identical.

1. A rattling noise made by the rapidly repeated collision of sonorous bodies which do not ring. ‘A clatter is a clash often repeated with great quickness, and seems to convey the idea of a sound sharper and shriller than a rattle’ (Johnson).

ΘΠ

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > repeated sound or succession of sounds > [noun] > clattering

clatteringc1400

clitter-clatter1535

clatter1578

reesle1608

slattering1661

clutter-clutter1691

cluttering1844

strepitation1913

1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball vi. lxxi. 750 Their [aspen leaves'] continual shaking, and noysome clatter.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) v. viii. 8 By this great clatter, one of greatest note Seemes bruited.

1683 W. Temple Mem. in Wks. (1731) I. 419 My Horses were so unruly with that Noise, and the Clatter of the Planks, that, etc.

1758 S. Johnson Idler 3 June 65 The clatter of empty pots.

1816 W. Scott Old Mortality xv, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. IV. 331 The clatter of horses' hoofs was heard.

1853 C. Kingsley Hypatia I. xi. 227 The clatter of their hoes among the pebbles.

a. Noisy talk; confused din of voices, gabble. Often applied contemptuously to what is treated as mere empty gabble.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > [noun] > chatter

chirma800

clappingc1386

glavera1400

clapa1420

clackc1440

blabc1460

clattera1500

babble?a1525

babblery1532

pratery1533

clitter-clatter1535

by-talk?1551

prattle1555

prittle-prattle1556

twittle-twattle1565

cacquet1567

prate?1574

prattlement1579

babblement1595

gibble-gabble1600

gabble1602

twattlea1639

tolutiloquence1656

pratement1657

gaggle1668

leden1674

cackle1676

twit-twat1677

clash1685

chit-chat1710

chatter-chitter1711

chitter-chatter1712

palavering1732

hubble-bubble1735

palaver1748

rattle1748

gum1751

mag1778

gabber1780

gammon1781

gash1787

chattery1789

gabber1792

whitter-whatter1805

yabble1808

clacket1812

talky-talky1812

potter1818

yatter1827

blue streak1830

gabblement1831

psilologya1834

chin-music1834

patter1841

jaw1842

chatter1851

brabble1861

tongue-work1866

yacker1882

talkee1885

chelp1891

chattermag1895

whitter1897

burble1898

yap1907

clatfart1913

jive1928

logorrhœa1935

waffle1937

yackety-yacking1953

yack1958

yackety-yack1958

motormouth1976

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > loudness > confused sound > [noun]

noise?a1400

clattera1500

Babela1529

burlinga1533

burle1563

tintamarre1567

coil1582

flipper-de-flapper1640

clutter1655

Babel sound1710

jargon1711

charivari1735

oratorio?1737

hubbub1779

callithump1843

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > empty, idle talk > [noun]

windc1290

trotevalea1300

follyc1300

jangle1340

jangleryc1374

tongue1382

fablec1384

clapa1420

babbling?c1430

clackc1440

pratinga1470

waste?a1475

clattera1500

trattle1513

babble?a1525

tattlea1529

tittle-tattlea1529

chatc1530

babblery1532

bibble-babble1532

slaverings1535

trittle-trattle1563

prate?1574

babblement1595

pribble-prabble1595

pribble1603

morologya1614

pibble-pabblea1616

sounda1616

spitter-spatter1619

argology1623

vaniloquence1623

vaniloquy1623

drivelling1637

jabberment1645

blateration1656

onology1670

whittie-whattiea1687

stultiloquence1721

claver1722

blether1786

havera1796

jaunder1796

havering1808

slaver1825

yatter1827

bugaboo1833

flapdoodle1834

bavardage1835

maunder1835

tattlement1837

slabber1840

gup1848

faddle1850

chatter1851

cock1851

drivel1852

maundering1853

drooling1854

windbaggery1859

blither1866

javer1869

mush1876

slobber1886

guff1888

squit1893

drool1900

macaroni1924

jive1928

natter1943

shtick1948

old talk1956

yack1958

yackety-yack1958

ole talk1964

Haigspeak1981

a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xxvi. 340 Hold styll thy clattur.

a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xxi. 252 As good that thou had Halden still thi clater.

a1638 J. Mede Wks. (1672) Gen. Pref. To make an astonishing clatter with many words of a strange sound and of an unknown sense.

1813 Edinb. Rev. 21 70 The people..have in their pronunciation a small degree of the clatter.

1829 E. Bulwer-Lytton Disowned I. ii. 27 The conversation changed into one universal clatter.

1851 H. W. Longfellow Golden Legend v. 240 Such a clatter of tongues in empty heads.

b. Gossip, chatter, idle talk, tittle-tattle. Often in plural. Chiefly Scottish.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > conversation > [noun] > chatting or chat > gossiping > gossip

jowl?c1225

trattle1513

tittle-tattle1570

tattle1583

clatter1596

street web1614

town talk1642

street-threada1661

clash1685

fetch-fire1784

street yarn1800

gossip1811

village gossip1847

Russian scandal1861

chopsing1879

cooze1880

reportage1881

skeet1900

scuttlebutt gossip1901

pussy-talk1937

mauvais languec1945

comess1970

he-say-she-say1972

gyaff1975

skinder1979

goss1985

gist1990

1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 68 Latting pas thir fables and a hundir sik clattiris.

1640 R. Baillie Let. 5 Nov. (1841) I. 269 We take it, and many things moe yow will hear, for clatters.

1790 R. Burns Tam o' Shanter 45 in Poems & Songs (1968) II. 558 The night drave on wi' sangs an' clatter.

1843 J. W. Carlyle Lett. I. 255 Oh, what nonsense clatter I do write to thee!

Compounds

clatter-bone n. (also clatter-bane) Scottish (a) a bone humorously supposed to move when one chatters or prates. (b) in plural ‘two pieces of bone or slate held between the fingers, which produce a clattering noise, similar to that from castanets’ (Jamieson).

ΚΠ

1721 J. Kelly Compl. Coll. Scotish Prov. 387 (Jam.).

1823 J. Galt Entail I. xx. 166 Thy tongue..gangs like the clatter-bane o' a goose's.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

clattern.²

Etymology: compare clatter v. 1b.

dialect.

A mass of loose boulders or shattered stones; so called on Dartmoor.

ΚΠ

1865 P. H. Gosse Land & Sea (1874) 396 Rooting out a crown of the hay-scented fern from the foot of the ‘clatter,’ as a mass of granite so situated is provincially termed.

1873 Q. Rev. 135 142 Spires and clatters of grey rock—as the long streams of shattered stone are locally called.

1882 Pall Mall Gaz. 28 July 4/1 Under shelter of the biggest rocks in the whole clatter..the word is good moorland English for a mass of loose, weathered boulders on the sky-line summit of a saddle-back ridge.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online June 2018).

clattern.³

Etymology: < clat n.¹ + -er suffix¹.

(See quot. 1829.)

ΚΠ

1829 J. L. Knapp Jrnl. Naturalist 49 The droppings of the cows were collected [for fuel]..beaten into a mass with water; then pressed by the feet into moulds..by regular professional persons, called clatters (clodders).

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online December 2019).

clatterv.

Brit.

/ˈklatə/, U.S.

/ˈklædər/

Forms: Middle English–1500s clater, Middle English clatere, clatre, clathyr, 1500s clattyr, clattre, Middle English– clatter.

Etymology: Old English clatrian (in clatrunge), corresponding to Middle Dutch and Dutch klateren to rattle, clatter, babble, East Frisian klatern, klattern, Low German klāteren, dialect German klattern, klättern; of onomatopoeic origin. In German and Dutch the word is synonymous with klapper(e)n, klepper(e)n. The order of senses is uncertain: compare the n.

a. intransitive. To make or emit a rapid succession of short sharp noises in striking a hard and dry body; to rattle. Said either of the material instruments or the agent.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > repeated sound or succession of sounds > [verb (intransitive)] > clatter

clastera1307

clatterc1386

shatter?a1400

hurtle1509

c1050 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 377/27 Crepacula, clatrunge.]

c1386 G. Chaucer Knight's Tale 1501 The arwes in the caas Of the goddesse clatren faste and rynge.c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 731 Þer as claterande fro þe crest þe colde borne renneȝ.a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1959) ix. x. 161 [They] hard hys arrowys clatterand in hys cace.c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 5787 Cloudis with the clamour claterit aboue.1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 299 They fall a clattering with..Drums and Kettles.1786 R. Burns Holy Fair xviii, in Poems 49 There the pint-stowp clatters.1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. xlvi. 423 Great ledges are wedged off from the hillsides by the ice, and roll clattering down the slopes.1878 H. S. Wilson Alpine Ascents i. 4 His heavy boots clatter upon the round pebbles.

†b. intransitive. To go to pieces with such a noise; to be shattered; to fall into ruins. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > break [verb (intransitive)] > shatter or break to pieces or burst > with noise

clattera1225

crash1535

snap1602

go1798

unsnap1867

a1225 Leg. Kath. 2026 Hit bigon to claterin al & to cleouen.

c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 1722 As alle þe clamberande clyffes hade clatered on hepes.

c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) l. 912 Sodomas schal..synk in-to grounde..& vche a koste of þis kyth clater vpon hepes.

c. To move rapidly with such a noise, to rattle along, down, over, etc.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > [verb (intransitive)] > with specific noise

squatter1786

clatter1810

creak1834

crunch1853

craunch1857

chuff1899

squish1952

the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swift movement in specific manner > move swiftly in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > move swiftly with or as with sound

thunderc1374

hurtle1509

rattle1555

skirr1567

whizz1591

brustle1638

clatter1810

whoosh1856

fizz1864

zoon1880

zing1899

skoosh1904

zoom1924

scream1943

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > repeated sound or succession of sounds > [verb (intransitive)] > clatter > move with

hurtle1509

clatter1810

1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake i. 7 Clattered an hundred steeds along.

1842 T. Martin My Namesake in Fraser's Mag. Dec. Up clattered the omnibus.

1858 N. Hawthorne Fr. & Ital. Jrnls. (1872) I. 57 Clattering over the pavements on wooden shoes.

1881 W. Besant & J. Rice Chaplain of Fleet III. xix. 100 He came clattering down the street.

a. transitive. To cause to rattle; to strike or dash together with a clattering noise. Also with off.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > repeated sound or succession of sounds > [verb (transitive)] > clatter

clatter?1562

?1562 Thersytes sig. D.ii^v And clatteringe there youre pottes with ale.

1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil Descr. Liparen in tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis 95 A clapping fyerbolt (such as..Ioue toe the ground clattreth).

1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 161. ⁋11 He sometimes stamped as in a rage..then clattered his chairs.

a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. iii. 368 The servants clatter the plates and glasses.

1862 G. A. Sala Seven Sons Mammon I. x. 252 [He] clattered his tea-cup.

1916 ‘B. Cable’ Action Front 187 The maxim clattered off belt after belt of cartridges.

b. northern dialect. To beat, thrash (a person).

ΚΠ

1849 C. Brontë Shirley III. ix. 217 Whisht! is that Horsfall clattering him? I wonder he does not yell out.

1855 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Yorks. Words 32 To clatter, to beat, to chastise. ‘I'll clatter thee.’

1876 C. C. Robinson Gloss. Words Dial. Mid-Yorks. Clatter, to beat with the open hands.

c. transitive. To make up hurriedly and noisily.

ΚΠ

1907 M. C. Harris Tents of Wickedness ii. i. 113 They'll clatter their clothes up in a sewing machine when their mothers won't do it for them any longer.

a. intransitive. To talk rapidly and noisily; to talk idly; to chatter, prattle, babble. In modern Scottish, to tattle, talk scandal.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > be talkative [verb (intransitive)] > talk excessively or chatter

chavel?c1225

babblea1250

chattera1250

clacka1250

janglea1300

ganglec1300

clapc1315

mumblec1350

blabberc1375

carp1377

tatterc1380

garre1382

rattlec1400

clatter1401

chimec1405

gabc1405

pattera1450

smattera1450

languetc1450

pratec1460

chat1483

jabber1499

clittera1529

cackle1530

prattle1532

blatter1533

blab1535

to run on pattens1546

tattle1547

prittle-prattlea1555

trattlea1555

tittle-tattle1556

quiddlea1566

brabble1570

clicket1570

twattle1573

gabble1574

prittle1583

to like to hear oneself speak, talk1597

to word it1612

deblaterate1623

tongue1624

twitter1630

snatter1647

oversay1656

whiffle1706

to gallop away1711

splutter1728

gob1770

gibble-gabble1775

palaver1781

to talk (etc.) nineteen to the dozen1785

gammon1789

witter1808

yabble1808

yaff1808

mag1810

chelp1820

tongue-pad1825

yatter1825

potter1826

chipper1829

jaw-jaw1831

buzz1832

to shoot off one's mouth1864

yawp1872

blate1878

chin1884

yap1888

spiel1894

to talk (also lie, swear, etc.) a blue streak1895

to run off at the mouth1908

chattermag1909

clatfart1913

to talk a streak1915

to run one's mouth1916

natter1942

ear-bash1944

rabbit1950

yack1950

yacker1961

to eat parrot head (also bottom)1965

yacket1969

to twat on1996

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > empty, idle talk > talk idly [verb (intransitive)]

chattera1250

drivelc1390

clatter1401

chatc1440

smattera1450

pratec1460

blaver1461

babble?1504

blether1524

boblec1530

trattlea1555

tittle-tattle1556

fable1579

tinkle1638

whiffle1706

slaver1730

doitera1790

jaunder1808

haver1816

maunder1816

blather1825

yatter1825

blat1846

bibble-babble1888

flap-doodle1893

twiddle1893

spiel1894

rot1896

blither1903

to run off at the mouth1908

drool1923

twiddle-twaddle1925

crap1940

natter1942

yack1950

yacker1961

yacket1969

1401 in T. Wright Polit. Poems & Songs (1859) II. 60 Thou claterist meche of orderis of aungeles in heuen.

c1440 York Myst. xl. 11 Who comes þere claterand?

a1450 Knt. de la Tour (1868) 40 Of them that usen to clatre, speke, and iangle atte the masse.

1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. ccxxii 684 The people begyn to clater and to murmur therat.

1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Gi/1 To Clatter prate, balbutire.

1641 J. Milton Of Reformation 26 Since hee must needs bee the Load-starre of Reformation as some men clatter.

1662 R. Mathews Unlearned Alchymist (new ed.) §79. 105 Her husband..clatters hard against me and my Pills.

1727 D. Defoe Ess. Hist. Apparitions xiv. 351 Those who clatter that Peter never was at Rome.

1816 W. Scott Antiquary II. ix. 240 Ye may be sure it was clattered about in the kitchen.

b. To chatter as a magpie.

ΚΠ

c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 31 The tuechitis cryit theuis nek, quhen the piettis clattrit.

4. transitive. To utter in a chattering way; blab, prate about. Obsolete (or only as transferred from 1.)

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > speak, say, or utter [verb (transitive)] > without restraint, openly, or recklessly

clatterc1325

to say outc1384

parbreak1402

blunder1483

blab1535

overshoot1549

spita1616

spawn1631

c1325 Poem temp. Edw. II 120 in Pol. Songs (Wr.) 329 He..Adihteth him a gay wenche..And there hii clateren cumpelin whan the candel is oute.

1401 in T. Wright Polit. Poems & Songs (1859) II. 76 Counceil owith to be kept And not to be clatrid.

a1500 (?c1450) Merlin i. 12 The women..clatered it aboute.

1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection ii. sig. Kvii To clater forthe his blynde prophecyes.

1573 G. Harvey Schollers Loove in Let.-bk. (1884) 108 That is y^e matter That poetts clatter.

1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 28 b When you clatter out such matters.

1635 A. Gil Sacred Philos. Holy Script. ii. xxiv. 174 That which these heretikes clatter.

1735 Bp. T. Wilson in J. Keble Life T. Wilson: Pt. II (1863) xxvi. 875 Many of the clerks hurry over the responses, and Psalms and Hymns, as fast as ever they can clatter them over.

5. The verb-stem is used adverbially (cf. bang v.¹ 8, etc.).

ΚΠ

1884 G. Moore Mummer's Wife (1887) 152 Clatter, clatter, clatter, went the bell.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

n.¹a1500

n.²1865

n.³1829

v.a1225

单词	clatter
释义	clattern.¹ Brit. /ˈklatə/, U.S. /ˈklædər/ Etymology: In 15th cent. clater , but possibly coeval with the verb of same form. Middle Dutch has clātere , Dutch klater , a rattle, and klateren to clatter, rattle, chatter. Sense 2 appears earliest in quots., and ought perhaps to stand first. The Old English clædur, cledr, cleadur (Epinal 218, etc.) ‘tabula qua a segitibus territantur aves’ appears to be connected, but is not phonetically identical. 1. A rattling noise made by the rapidly repeated collision of sonorous bodies which do not ring. ‘A clatter is a clash often repeated with great quickness, and seems to convey the idea of a sound sharper and shriller than a rattle’ (Johnson). ΘΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > repeated sound or succession of sounds > [noun] > clattering clatteringc1400 clitter-clatter1535 clatter1578 reesle1608 slattering1661 clutter-clutter1691 cluttering1844 strepitation1913 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball vi. lxxi. 750 Their [aspen leaves'] continual shaking, and noysome clatter. a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) v. viii. 8 By this great clatter, one of greatest note Seemes bruited. View more context for this quotation 1683 W. Temple Mem. in Wks. (1731) I. 419 My Horses were so unruly with that Noise, and the Clatter of the Planks, that, etc. 1758 S. Johnson Idler 3 June 65 The clatter of empty pots. 1816 W. Scott Old Mortality xv, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. IV. 331 The clatter of horses' hoofs was heard. 1853 C. Kingsley Hypatia I. xi. 227 The clatter of their hoes among the pebbles. 2. a. Noisy talk; confused din of voices, gabble. Often applied contemptuously to what is treated as mere empty gabble. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > [noun] > chatter chirma800 clappingc1386 glavera1400 clapa1420 clackc1440 blabc1460 clattera1500 babble?a1525 babblery1532 pratery1533 clitter-clatter1535 by-talk?1551 prattle1555 prittle-prattle1556 twittle-twattle1565 cacquet1567 prate?1574 prattlement1579 babblement1595 gibble-gabble1600 gabble1602 twattlea1639 tolutiloquence1656 pratement1657 gaggle1668 leden1674 cackle1676 twit-twat1677 clash1685 chit-chat1710 chatter-chitter1711 chitter-chatter1712 palavering1732 hubble-bubble1735 palaver1748 rattle1748 gum1751 mag1778 gabber1780 gammon1781 gash1787 chattery1789 gabber1792 whitter-whatter1805 yabble1808 clacket1812 talky-talky1812 potter1818 yatter1827 blue streak1830 gabblement1831 psilologya1834 chin-music1834 patter1841 jaw1842 chatter1851 brabble1861 tongue-work1866 yacker1882 talkee1885 chelp1891 chattermag1895 whitter1897 burble1898 yap1907 clatfart1913 jive1928 logorrhœa1935 waffle1937 yackety-yacking1953 yack1958 yackety-yack1958 motormouth1976 the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > loudness > confused sound > [noun] noise?a1400 clattera1500 Babela1529 burlinga1533 burle1563 tintamarre1567 coil1582 flipper-de-flapper1640 clutter1655 Babel sound1710 jargon1711 charivari1735 oratorio?1737 hubbub1779 callithump1843 the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > empty, idle talk > [noun] windc1290 trotevalea1300 follyc1300 jangle1340 jangleryc1374 tongue1382 fablec1384 clapa1420 babbling?c1430 clackc1440 pratinga1470 waste?a1475 clattera1500 trattle1513 babble?a1525 tattlea1529 tittle-tattlea1529 chatc1530 babblery1532 bibble-babble1532 slaverings1535 trittle-trattle1563 prate?1574 babblement1595 pribble-prabble1595 pribble1603 morologya1614 pibble-pabblea1616 sounda1616 spitter-spatter1619 argology1623 vaniloquence1623 vaniloquy1623 drivelling1637 jabberment1645 blateration1656 onology1670 whittie-whattiea1687 stultiloquence1721 claver1722 blether1786 havera1796 jaunder1796 havering1808 slaver1825 yatter1827 bugaboo1833 flapdoodle1834 bavardage1835 maunder1835 tattlement1837 slabber1840 gup1848 faddle1850 chatter1851 cock1851 drivel1852 maundering1853 drooling1854 windbaggery1859 blither1866 javer1869 mush1876 slobber1886 guff1888 squit1893 drool1900 macaroni1924 jive1928 natter1943 shtick1948 old talk1956 yack1958 yackety-yack1958 ole talk1964 Haigspeak1981 a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xxvi. 340 Hold styll thy clattur. a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xxi. 252 As good that thou had Halden still thi clater. a1638 J. Mede Wks. (1672) Gen. Pref. To make an astonishing clatter with many words of a strange sound and of an unknown sense. 1813 Edinb. Rev. 21 70 The people..have in their pronunciation a small degree of the clatter. 1829 E. Bulwer-Lytton Disowned I. ii. 27 The conversation changed into one universal clatter. 1851 H. W. Longfellow Golden Legend v. 240 Such a clatter of tongues in empty heads. b. Gossip, chatter, idle talk, tittle-tattle. Often in plural. Chiefly Scottish. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > conversation > [noun] > chatting or chat > gossiping > gossip jowl?c1225 trattle1513 tittle-tattle1570 tattle1583 clatter1596 street web1614 town talk1642 street-threada1661 clash1685 fetch-fire1784 street yarn1800 gossip1811 village gossip1847 Russian scandal1861 chopsing1879 cooze1880 reportage1881 skeet1900 scuttlebutt gossip1901 pussy-talk1937 mauvais languec1945 comess1970 he-say-she-say1972 gyaff1975 skinder1979 goss1985 gist1990 1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 68 Latting pas thir fables and a hundir sik clattiris. 1640 R. Baillie Let. 5 Nov. (1841) I. 269 We take it, and many things moe yow will hear, for clatters. 1790 R. Burns Tam o' Shanter 45 in Poems & Songs (1968) II. 558 The night drave on wi' sangs an' clatter. 1843 J. W. Carlyle Lett. I. 255 Oh, what nonsense clatter I do write to thee! Compounds clatter-bone n. (also clatter-bane) Scottish (a) a bone humorously supposed to move when one chatters or prates. (b) in plural ‘two pieces of bone or slate held between the fingers, which produce a clattering noise, similar to that from castanets’ (Jamieson). ΚΠ 1721 J. Kelly Compl. Coll. Scotish Prov. 387 (Jam.). 1823 J. Galt Entail I. xx. 166 Thy tongue..gangs like the clatter-bane o' a goose's. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2022). clattern.² Etymology: compare clatter v. 1b. dialect. A mass of loose boulders or shattered stones; so called on Dartmoor. ΚΠ 1865 P. H. Gosse Land & Sea (1874) 396 Rooting out a crown of the hay-scented fern from the foot of the ‘clatter,’ as a mass of granite so situated is provincially termed. 1873 Q. Rev. 135 142 Spires and clatters of grey rock—as the long streams of shattered stone are locally called. 1882 Pall Mall Gaz. 28 July 4/1 Under shelter of the biggest rocks in the whole clatter..the word is good moorland English for a mass of loose, weathered boulders on the sky-line summit of a saddle-back ridge. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online June 2018). clattern.³ Etymology: < clat n.¹ + -er suffix¹. (See quot. 1829.) ΚΠ 1829 J. L. Knapp Jrnl. Naturalist 49 The droppings of the cows were collected [for fuel]..beaten into a mass with water; then pressed by the feet into moulds..by regular professional persons, called clatters (clodders). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online December 2019). clatterv. Brit. /ˈklatə/, U.S. /ˈklædər/ Forms: Middle English–1500s clater, Middle English clatere, clatre, clathyr, 1500s clattyr, clattre, Middle English– clatter. Etymology: Old English clatrian (in clatrunge), corresponding to Middle Dutch and Dutch klateren to rattle, clatter, babble, East Frisian klatern, klattern, Low German klāteren, dialect German klattern, klättern; of onomatopoeic origin. In German and Dutch the word is synonymous with klapper(e)n, klepper(e)n. The order of senses is uncertain: compare the n. 1. a. intransitive. To make or emit a rapid succession of short sharp noises in striking a hard and dry body; to rattle. Said either of the material instruments or the agent. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > repeated sound or succession of sounds > [verb (intransitive)] > clatter clastera1307 clatterc1386 shatter?a1400 hurtle1509 c1050 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 377/27 Crepacula, clatrunge.] c1386 G. Chaucer Knight's Tale 1501 The arwes in the caas Of the goddesse clatren faste and rynge.c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 731 Þer as claterande fro þe crest þe colde borne renneȝ.a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1959) ix. x. 161 [They] hard hys arrowys clatterand in hys cace.c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 5787 Cloudis with the clamour claterit aboue.1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 299 They fall a clattering with..Drums and Kettles.1786 R. Burns Holy Fair xviii, in Poems 49 There the pint-stowp clatters.1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. xlvi. 423 Great ledges are wedged off from the hillsides by the ice, and roll clattering down the slopes.1878 H. S. Wilson Alpine Ascents i. 4 His heavy boots clatter upon the round pebbles. †b. intransitive. To go to pieces with such a noise; to be shattered; to fall into ruins. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > break [verb (intransitive)] > shatter or break to pieces or burst > with noise clattera1225 crash1535 snap1602 go1798 unsnap1867 a1225 Leg. Kath. 2026 Hit bigon to claterin al & to cleouen. c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 1722 As alle þe clamberande clyffes hade clatered on hepes. c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) l. 912 Sodomas schal..synk in-to grounde..& vche a koste of þis kyth clater vpon hepes. c. To move rapidly with such a noise, to rattle along, down, over, etc. ΘΚΠ society > travel > [verb (intransitive)] > with specific noise squatter1786 clatter1810 creak1834 crunch1853 craunch1857 chuff1899 squish1952 the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swift movement in specific manner > move swiftly in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > move swiftly with or as with sound thunderc1374 hurtle1509 rattle1555 skirr1567 whizz1591 brustle1638 clatter1810 whoosh1856 fizz1864 zoon1880 zing1899 skoosh1904 zoom1924 scream1943 the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > repeated sound or succession of sounds > [verb (intransitive)] > clatter > move with hurtle1509 clatter1810 1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake i. 7 Clattered an hundred steeds along. 1842 T. Martin My Namesake in Fraser's Mag. Dec. Up clattered the omnibus. 1858 N. Hawthorne Fr. & Ital. Jrnls. (1872) I. 57 Clattering over the pavements on wooden shoes. 1881 W. Besant & J. Rice Chaplain of Fleet III. xix. 100 He came clattering down the street. 2. a. transitive. To cause to rattle; to strike or dash together with a clattering noise. Also with off. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > repeated sound or succession of sounds > [verb (transitive)] > clatter clatter?1562 ?1562 Thersytes sig. D.ii^v And clatteringe there youre pottes with ale. 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil Descr. Liparen in tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis 95 A clapping fyerbolt (such as..Ioue toe the ground clattreth). 1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 161. ⁋11 He sometimes stamped as in a rage..then clattered his chairs. a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. iii. 368 The servants clatter the plates and glasses. 1862 G. A. Sala Seven Sons Mammon I. x. 252 [He] clattered his tea-cup. 1916 ‘B. Cable’ Action Front 187 The maxim clattered off belt after belt of cartridges. b. northern dialect. To beat, thrash (a person). ΚΠ 1849 C. Brontë Shirley III. ix. 217 Whisht! is that Horsfall clattering him? I wonder he does not yell out. 1855 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Yorks. Words 32 To clatter, to beat, to chastise. ‘I'll clatter thee.’ 1876 C. C. Robinson Gloss. Words Dial. Mid-Yorks. Clatter, to beat with the open hands. c. transitive. To make up hurriedly and noisily. ΚΠ 1907 M. C. Harris Tents of Wickedness ii. i. 113 They'll clatter their clothes up in a sewing machine when their mothers won't do it for them any longer. 3. a. intransitive. To talk rapidly and noisily; to talk idly; to chatter, prattle, babble. In modern Scottish, to tattle, talk scandal. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > be talkative [verb (intransitive)] > talk excessively or chatter chavel?c1225 babblea1250 chattera1250 clacka1250 janglea1300 ganglec1300 clapc1315 mumblec1350 blabberc1375 carp1377 tatterc1380 garre1382 rattlec1400 clatter1401 chimec1405 gabc1405 pattera1450 smattera1450 languetc1450 pratec1460 chat1483 jabber1499 clittera1529 cackle1530 prattle1532 blatter1533 blab1535 to run on pattens1546 tattle1547 prittle-prattlea1555 trattlea1555 tittle-tattle1556 quiddlea1566 brabble1570 clicket1570 twattle1573 gabble1574 prittle1583 to like to hear oneself speak, talk1597 to word it1612 deblaterate1623 tongue1624 twitter1630 snatter1647 oversay1656 whiffle1706 to gallop away1711 splutter1728 gob1770 gibble-gabble1775 palaver1781 to talk (etc.) nineteen to the dozen1785 gammon1789 witter1808 yabble1808 yaff1808 mag1810 chelp1820 tongue-pad1825 yatter1825 potter1826 chipper1829 jaw-jaw1831 buzz1832 to shoot off one's mouth1864 yawp1872 blate1878 chin1884 yap1888 spiel1894 to talk (also lie, swear, etc.) a blue streak1895 to run off at the mouth1908 chattermag1909 clatfart1913 to talk a streak1915 to run one's mouth1916 natter1942 ear-bash1944 rabbit1950 yack1950 yacker1961 to eat parrot head (also bottom)1965 yacket1969 to twat on1996 the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > empty, idle talk > talk idly [verb (intransitive)] chattera1250 drivelc1390 clatter1401 chatc1440 smattera1450 pratec1460 blaver1461 babble?1504 blether1524 boblec1530 trattlea1555 tittle-tattle1556 fable1579 tinkle1638 whiffle1706 slaver1730 doitera1790 jaunder1808 haver1816 maunder1816 blather1825 yatter1825 blat1846 bibble-babble1888 flap-doodle1893 twiddle1893 spiel1894 rot1896 blither1903 to run off at the mouth1908 drool1923 twiddle-twaddle1925 crap1940 natter1942 yack1950 yacker1961 yacket1969 1401 in T. Wright Polit. Poems & Songs (1859) II. 60 Thou claterist meche of orderis of aungeles in heuen. c1440 York Myst. xl. 11 Who comes þere claterand? a1450 Knt. de la Tour (1868) 40 Of them that usen to clatre, speke, and iangle atte the masse. 1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. ccxxii 684 The people begyn to clater and to murmur therat. 1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Gi/1 To Clatter prate, balbutire. 1641 J. Milton Of Reformation 26 Since hee must needs bee the Load-starre of Reformation as some men clatter. 1662 R. Mathews Unlearned Alchymist (new ed.) §79. 105 Her husband..clatters hard against me and my Pills. 1727 D. Defoe Ess. Hist. Apparitions xiv. 351 Those who clatter that Peter never was at Rome. 1816 W. Scott Antiquary II. ix. 240 Ye may be sure it was clattered about in the kitchen. b. To chatter as a magpie. ΚΠ c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 31 The tuechitis cryit theuis nek, quhen the piettis clattrit. 4. transitive. To utter in a chattering way; blab, prate about. Obsolete (or only as transferred from 1.) ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > speak, say, or utter [verb (transitive)] > without restraint, openly, or recklessly clatterc1325 to say outc1384 parbreak1402 blunder1483 blab1535 overshoot1549 spita1616 spawn1631 c1325 Poem temp. Edw. II 120 in Pol. Songs (Wr.) 329 He..Adihteth him a gay wenche..And there hii clateren cumpelin whan the candel is oute. 1401 in T. Wright Polit. Poems & Songs (1859) II. 76 Counceil owith to be kept And not to be clatrid. a1500 (?c1450) Merlin i. 12 The women..clatered it aboute. 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection ii. sig. Kvii To clater forthe his blynde prophecyes. 1573 G. Harvey Schollers Loove in Let.-bk. (1884) 108 That is y^e matter That poetts clatter. 1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 28 b When you clatter out such matters. 1635 A. Gil Sacred Philos. Holy Script. ii. xxiv. 174 That which these heretikes clatter. 1735 Bp. T. Wilson in J. Keble Life T. Wilson: Pt. II (1863) xxvi. 875 Many of the clerks hurry over the responses, and Psalms and Hymns, as fast as ever they can clatter them over. 5. The verb-stem is used adverbially (cf. bang v.¹ 8, etc.). ΚΠ 1884 G. Moore Mummer's Wife (1887) 152 Clatter, clatter, clatter, went the bell. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹a1500n.²1865n.³1829v.a1225
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