单词 |
chitter-chatter |
释义 |
ˌchitter-ˈchatter a. A reduplicated extension of chatter: cf. chit-chat n.
1712Lady Strafford in Wentworth Papers (1883) 283 You desired all the Chitter Chatter I heard. 1877Disraeli in Buckle Life (1920) VI. 116 He did not want anything: only chitter-chatter. 1895Kipling 2nd Jungle Bk. 193 Mowgli..imitated perfectly the sharp chitter-chatter of Chikai, the leaping rat of the Dekkan. 1908Daily Chron. 3 Aug. 3/1 What is the use of smart women's chitter-chatter without their dresses? 1928Observer 19 Feb. 10/1 The empty, drawing-room chitter-chatter plays. 1940F. Stark Winter in Arabia, Diary 29 Dec. 74 ‘We exhaust you with our chitter-chatter,’ they say politely. b. Also as vb.
1928Hearst's International Aug. 43/1 He never tired of the Esperanto of the ticker tape..chittering chattering fortune or disaster. |

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