to yammer
14
9.0
- verb
- /ˈjæmɚ/
- Informal
:
parlotear (coloquial)
- She tends to yammer incessantly about trivial matters, which can be quite annoying.
- stop yammering
- start yammering
- keep yammering
Let them Yammer on their cuckoo nonsense.
- Let them Yammer on their cuckoo nonsense.
- When they're there, don't show up when they start yammering on.
- And so you are left with, yeah, kind of yammering talking heads who on on TV who are are really not talking about much.
- They will Yammer on about witch hunts and having a target on their back and they're a victim, blah blah blah.
Examples
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You've been yammering since we left Cape Canaveral.
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All the passing technicians were yammering into their communicators.
Fiction book (2001) -
You know, the more you yammer on about Dad, it makes me think you miss him.
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We are doing all the killing while you yammer yammer.
Fiction book (1998) -
An older gentleman got in right behind me and immediately started yammering on about God only knows what.
Blog text (21) -
I'm done yammering for the day.
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And she would not stop yammering about her pet rat's blog.
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And she's been yammering about you all night.
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But these people were yammering at each other all the livelong day.
Fiction book (1997) -
Stop yammering!
Synonyms
211
2.8
To complain in a high, annoying voice
140
3.7
To speak quietly so others cannot hear, often to complain
86
2.7
To talk quickly and without stopping about unimportant things
75
4.4
Talk quickly in a silly way that is hard to understand
10
6.0
Talk for a long time in a boring, flat voice
9
8.4
To talk on and on in a silly way about unimportant things
9
6.9
Shout angrily and complain for a long time
8
6.5
To talk quickly and excitedly in a way that is hard to understand
8
9.6
To complain a lot in an annoying way
7
3.7
To make a long low sound like distant thunder
5
6.6
To talk for a long time about small boring things
5
8.1
To complain in an annoying way about small things
3
8.8
To talk a lot about unimportant things in an annoying way
2
7.7
To talk a lot in an annoying, noisy way
1
8.4
To talk without stopping in an annoying way
1
7.9
To talk quickly and unclearly so others cannot understand you
1
6.8
To complain a lot in an annoying way
1
9.1
Talk for a long time in a way that annoys other people
To talk quickly and without stopping about unimportant things
To talk for a long time about unimportant things in a silly way
To talk a lot in a silly, pointless way
To speak quickly in a confused or silly way
To mutter complaints quietly so others cannot hear
To complain in a sulky, childish way about small things
Make a loud, rough sound like a shout to show anger or complaint
To shout for something loudly and repeatedly
Antonyms
How Annoying
- Informal
70
4.8
- Informal
14
9.0
9
8.4
- Informal
269
1.0
947
1.0
∞
1.0
Surface Forms
Etymology
Yammer probably comes from an old northern word jamra, which meant 'to complain'. So, to yammer is to make loud, repeated, annoying sounds of complaint, a bit like the short word yap, which makes it easy to remember.