chatter n.
SE in slang uses
In compounds
a small, noisy child; synons. incl. chatter-bags, chatter-bladder, chatter-cart and (US) chatter-bones.
Burlesque Homer 350: He’d [...] spoke his mind because he reckon’d / Old Chatterbags would be his second. | (3rd edn)||
Burlesque Homer (4th edn) II 122: [as cit. 1772]. | ||
, | Dict. of Modern Sl. etc. | |
Sl. Dict. | ||
DN IV:iii 208: chatter-box, -basket, -bones, -cart, incessant talker. ‘You are such a chatter-box and never say anything either.’. | ‘Terms Of Disparagement’ in
tea.
, , | Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. | |
Lex. Balatronicum. | ||
Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. |
a machinegun or sub-machinegun.
Under Cover Man 8: Tracin’ that chattergun might mean a couple of square shooters ridin’ the thunderbolt. | ||
Black Mask Stories (2010) 228/2: Watch it. They got a chatter gun. | ‘Ten Carats of Lead’ in||
Executioner (1973) 16: Another chattergun had joined the action. | ||
🌐 Did he have three blades on his hip? And a shotgun? And a haul-ass car with a big chattergun on the back? | Outrider II Ch. 11:
see separate entries.