yammer

verb

yam·mer ˈya-mər

yammered; yammering ˈya-mə-riŋ

ˈyam-riŋ

Synonyms of yammer next

intransitive verb

: to utter repeated cries of distress or sorrow

: whimper

: to utter persistent complaints : whine

: to talk persistently or volubly and often loudly

caused the purists to yammer for censorship—

D. W. Maurer

yammer noun

Example Sentences

customers yammered on for what seemed like days about the billing mistake

Recent Examples on the Web So the easiest course is to yammer on about Hitler while the single female professional down the street takes her own reproductive chocies into her own hands (so to speak). —

Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 9 Oct. 2013 Abandoned on my own private Exile Island without a recap in which to yammer on endlessly about trivial matters that are of no real importance whatsoever. —

Dalton Ross, EW.com, 23 Sep. 2021 Only in a minority of cases did one partner want to yammer on whereas the other wished to cut things off. —

Cathleen O’grady, Science | AAAS, 1 Mar. 2021 Where are all the hanging geraniums? Kids yammering for ice cream? —

Sue Hertz, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Apr. 2018 There was already enough finger-pointing, yammering about bad people doing bad things. —

Gary Thompson, Philly.com, 29 Mar. 2018 The North Koreans had largely let the South Koreans do the talking until Bolton started yammering on about Libya. —

Sean Illing, Vox, 24 May 2018 The president yammered about several topics, including his ties to Michael Cohen, Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation, and Kanye West’s recent pro-Trump tweets. —

Laura Bradley, HWD, 27 Apr. 2018 In other words, the event all those Y2K conspiracy theorists were yammering about 18 years ago has finally happened, and we're all doomed. —

Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 8 Feb. 2018 See More

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