chatterings

Cold teeth noises

Chatterings is the plural of chattering—rapid, repetitive sounds or speech.

Birds make chatterings in the trees.

Teeth produce chatterings from cold or fear.

The word also covers trivial or incessant talk: The chatterings of gossips filled the salon.

In some dialects, chitterlings (pig intestines) appears as chatterings.

birds

tweets

Brief social media posts

twittering · squawking · songbirds · sparrows · finches · canaries · starlings · nestlings · fledglings · aviary

gossip

rumors

Unconfirmed circulating stories

scandal · backbiting · innuendo · busybodies · gossipmongers · blabbering · prattling · nattering · babbling · idle talk

teeth

shivering

Involuntary bodily trembling

shuddering · chill · clacking · rattling · jaw · freezing · goosebumps · frostbite · hypothermia · involuntary

Opposites
speech quality

chatteringseloquence

Persuasive verbal grace

oration · oratory · rhetoric · wisdom · gravitas

sound volume/presence

chatteringssilence

Total lack of sound

stillness · quietude · hush · quiet · muteness

communication style

chatteringsbrevity

Shortness of expression

terseness · economy of words · taciturnity · reticence · laconicism

Phrases
Family

chattering

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Everyday, not technical · Rated G