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单词 yammer
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Definition of yammer in English:

yammer

noun ˈjaməˈjæmər
mass noundialect, informal
  • Loud and sustained or repetitive noise.

    the yammer of their animated conversation
    the yammer of enemy fire
    Example sentencesExamples
    • There, Confederate suddenly comes to life with a yammer and a hiss, the clang of metal being shaped by men whose grease- and nicotine-stained hands are both rough and knowing.
    • At the moment the TVs broadcast a repeating loop of one of the Guerilla News Network's pastiched send-ups of Bush's war yammer from last year - another scathing and witty but oft-screened bit of insurgent Final Cut Pro handiwork.
    • That's enough ganglia to mime an opera of emotions: a yammer of remorse, perhaps, or a blunt ‘sit on it.’
verb ˈjaməˈjæmər
[no object]dialect, informal
  • 1Make a loud, repetitive noise.

    the seismographs were yammering for days
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Dolly the Mega-Cat delivered her verdict on the day very early this morning, yowling and yammering to be let in.
    • And here I am now, with the shades lowered and foam rammed in my ears, only to find out that nothing filters out the jackhammers that yammer at over 110 decibels an hour.
    • There's even a choir of tweeting birds in the backyard now - for all I know they've been yammering on all afternoon, but when the sun's out you somehow hear them better.
    • Swarms of scooters yammered hysterically past, sounding like runaway chainsaws.
    Synonyms
    chat, talk idly, chatter, prattle, prate, go on, run on, rattle away, rattle on, gossip, tittle-tattle, tattle, ramble, gabble, jabber, babble, blather, blether, blither, twitter, maunder, drivel, patter, yap, jibber-jabber, cackle
    1. 1.1 Talk volubly.
      he was yammering on as if he had an enthralled audience at his feet
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Regulars have wandered in from the pool table by the door, the annoying drunk has stopped yammering and approached the stage for a last minute autograph, and Jolie's mother is busily catering to a line at the merchandise table.
      • I could just yammer on long enough now to make it so that you'll have to scroll down to see it.
      • I don't want to cheese out on you guys and start yammering on about Oprah-esque topics like paying it forward, but god knows how many dollars we all toss around that don't help anyone do anything…
      • And don't start yammering about the Democrats being worse still.
      • Underworld yammers on and on about bloodlines and supernatural compost when it should be kicking it up a notch in the action department.
      • Friday night I went to that gay blogger thing everyone's been yammering on about to pimp WYSIWYG and met every keyboard-and-digital-camera-wielding fag in existence, or so it seemed.
      • He takes me for tea in a teashop with ruthlessly minimalist decor - there aren't any chairs - and yammers at length about the places he can take me to.
      • The legendary bassist happily yammers on about some of the mythology surrounding the Ramones, including the origins of ‘Chinese Rocks,’ an ode to smack - penned by Dee Dee, but made famous by the Heartbreakers.
      • The standard jammer only has a radius of about 20 feet, but that's enough to shut-down any cell-phoner who's yammering away in a restaurant or who takes a call in a movie theater.
      • This is one reason I kept yammering about the dialectical nature of rock; it often embeds a critique and a conflict.
      • By the time I got back Pete was yammering on about the Indianapolis Colt's cheerleaders and the Eagles had scored and things were looking up.
      • I'm making my second trip by the time she has it in the door, but no sooner has she set it down when she's off to the car again, yammering on about something that I can't quite make out.
      • Also, satellite and cable tv offer vastly underappreciated music programming, dozens and dozens of channels of all kinds of music with no damned DJ yammering on or even commercials.
      • She was yammering about this or that, while her two male friends sat down across from me - I'll call them Drunk and Drunker.
      • As a professional who talks for a living, I am continually amazed that the world is full of people yammering away all for the sheer pleasure of expressing themselves.
      • The ride home was noisy, Corrie keeping the conversation alive by yammering on about whatever came to her mind.
      • For the whole hour, the whole lucky hour that Andy got to hear her father yammer on about his upcoming election and how crucial it was that they remain ‘a strong family unit.’
      • Mark slammed the door to the manor; he was tired of listening to his father yammer on.
      • Plus, these days people routinely become famous for appearing in advertising, designing things, being good cooks, yammering away on the internet, etc. etc.
      Synonyms
      talk, gossip, chatter, chitter-chatter, speak, converse, have a conversation, engage in conversation, tittle-tattle, prattle, jabber, jibber-jabber, babble, prate, go on, run on

Derivatives

  • yammerer

  • noun
    informal, dialect
    • I know it's important-I also know that he will be on the Supreme Court no matter how long the professional yammerers practice their craft during these hearings.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • That may be, at least in part, because network news anchors and cable TV news yammerers are too busy all talking about the same things, you know, the war, the deficit, the Patriot Act, the Super Bowl.
      • As one who has moved up from mere yammerer to humble cousin by virtue of now being paid to write reviews, rather than just offering my hasty, instinctive opinion here, I take issue with this dismissive, short-sighted and condescending attitude.
      • It's all very easy for people to yammer on about the unfairness of bans (not you Bec… I'd not call you a yammerer) but what are these people doing to change the very basic laws?
      • At first Ms. Kahn's Alice seems like the kind of insufferable yammerer who would drive anyone mad.
      • I don't have cable, so I won't be cheating to see what the highly-paid yammerers are going on and on about.

Origin

Late Middle English (as a verb meaning 'lament, cry out'): alteration of earlier yomer, from Old English geōmrian 'to lament', suggested by Middle Dutch jammeren.

Rhymes

Alabama, clamour (US clamor), crammer, gamma, glamour (US glamor), gnamma, grammar, hammer, jammer, lamber, mamma, rammer, shammer, slammer, stammer
 
 

Definition of yammer in US English:

yammer

nounˈyamərˈjæmər
  • Loud and sustained or repetitive noise.

    the yammer of their animated conversation
    the yammer of enemy fire
    Example sentencesExamples
    • That's enough ganglia to mime an opera of emotions: a yammer of remorse, perhaps, or a blunt ‘sit on it.’
    • At the moment the TVs broadcast a repeating loop of one of the Guerilla News Network's pastiched send-ups of Bush's war yammer from last year - another scathing and witty but oft-screened bit of insurgent Final Cut Pro handiwork.
    • There, Confederate suddenly comes to life with a yammer and a hiss, the clang of metal being shaped by men whose grease- and nicotine-stained hands are both rough and knowing.
verbˈyamərˈjæmər
[no object]
  • 1Make a loud, repetitive noise.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Dolly the Mega-Cat delivered her verdict on the day very early this morning, yowling and yammering to be let in.
    • There's even a choir of tweeting birds in the backyard now - for all I know they've been yammering on all afternoon, but when the sun's out you somehow hear them better.
    • And here I am now, with the shades lowered and foam rammed in my ears, only to find out that nothing filters out the jackhammers that yammer at over 110 decibels an hour.
    • Swarms of scooters yammered hysterically past, sounding like runaway chainsaws.
    Synonyms
    chat, talk idly, chatter, prattle, prate, go on, run on, rattle away, rattle on, gossip, tittle-tattle, tattle, ramble, gabble, jabber, babble, blather, blether, blither, twitter, maunder, drivel, patter, yap, jibber-jabber, cackle
    1. 1.1 Talk volubly.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The ride home was noisy, Corrie keeping the conversation alive by yammering on about whatever came to her mind.
      • For the whole hour, the whole lucky hour that Andy got to hear her father yammer on about his upcoming election and how crucial it was that they remain ‘a strong family unit.’
      • Also, satellite and cable tv offer vastly underappreciated music programming, dozens and dozens of channels of all kinds of music with no damned DJ yammering on or even commercials.
      • Plus, these days people routinely become famous for appearing in advertising, designing things, being good cooks, yammering away on the internet, etc. etc.
      • The legendary bassist happily yammers on about some of the mythology surrounding the Ramones, including the origins of ‘Chinese Rocks,’ an ode to smack - penned by Dee Dee, but made famous by the Heartbreakers.
      • I could just yammer on long enough now to make it so that you'll have to scroll down to see it.
      • He takes me for tea in a teashop with ruthlessly minimalist decor - there aren't any chairs - and yammers at length about the places he can take me to.
      • Regulars have wandered in from the pool table by the door, the annoying drunk has stopped yammering and approached the stage for a last minute autograph, and Jolie's mother is busily catering to a line at the merchandise table.
      • Mark slammed the door to the manor; he was tired of listening to his father yammer on.
      • The standard jammer only has a radius of about 20 feet, but that's enough to shut-down any cell-phoner who's yammering away in a restaurant or who takes a call in a movie theater.
      • Underworld yammers on and on about bloodlines and supernatural compost when it should be kicking it up a notch in the action department.
      • As a professional who talks for a living, I am continually amazed that the world is full of people yammering away all for the sheer pleasure of expressing themselves.
      • She was yammering about this or that, while her two male friends sat down across from me - I'll call them Drunk and Drunker.
      • By the time I got back Pete was yammering on about the Indianapolis Colt's cheerleaders and the Eagles had scored and things were looking up.
      • I don't want to cheese out on you guys and start yammering on about Oprah-esque topics like paying it forward, but god knows how many dollars we all toss around that don't help anyone do anything…
      • And don't start yammering about the Democrats being worse still.
      • This is one reason I kept yammering about the dialectical nature of rock; it often embeds a critique and a conflict.
      • I'm making my second trip by the time she has it in the door, but no sooner has she set it down when she's off to the car again, yammering on about something that I can't quite make out.
      • Friday night I went to that gay blogger thing everyone's been yammering on about to pimp WYSIWYG and met every keyboard-and-digital-camera-wielding fag in existence, or so it seemed.
      Synonyms
      talk, gossip, chatter, chitter-chatter, speak, converse, have a conversation, engage in conversation, tittle-tattle, prattle, jabber, jibber-jabber, babble, prate, go on, run on

Origin

Late Middle English (as a verb meaning ‘lament, cry out’): alteration of earlier yomer, from Old English geōmrian ‘to lament’, suggested by Middle Dutch jammeren.

 
 
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