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.