chattery
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]chattery (comparative more chattery, superlative most chattery)
- Tending or inclined to chatter.
- 1988 January 29, S.L. Wisenberg, “Sorority Rush”, in Chicago Reader[1], Chicago, I.L.: Chicago Reader, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-12-23:
- Some of the women were sincere. Some were nervous. Some were fake and glib and chattery. Some stumbled. At least one was manic.
Noun
[edit]chattery (uncountable)
- (humorous, rare) Chatter, idle talk.
- 2022 April 20, Rex Murphy, “Rex Murphy: The United States is adrift and Joe Biden is no captain”, in National Post[2], Toronto, Ont.: Postmedia Network Canada Corp., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 20 November 2024:
- 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.
References
[edit]- “chattery, adj.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000. - “chattery, v.”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
