chatter

Noun

• the high-pitched continuing noise made by animals (birds or monkeys)

• the rapid series of noises made by the parts of a machine

• noisy talk

Verb

• make noise as if chattering away
  • The magpies were chattering in the trees
    

• speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly

• talk socially without exchanging too much information
  • the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze
    

• cut unevenly with a chattering tool

• click repeatedly or uncontrollably
  • Chattering teeth
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  chattering , yak , yack , yakety-yak , cackle , click