yammer
Other forms: yammering; yammered; yammers
To yammer is to make a loud, howling sound, or to talk on and on about nothing much at all. When cats yammer outside your window all night long, it's hard to fall asleep.
You might complain about the way your neighbors yammer loudly in their yard early in the morning, or about the fact that your brothers yammer and fight all through dinner. Whether a person, an animal, or an inanimate object like a motorcycle yammers, it makes a pretty annoying sound. In the fifteenth century, yammer meant "to lament," from the Old English root geomor, "sorrowful."
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complain whiningly
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speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
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cry loudly, as of animals
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Piper is a seventh-grade student trying to find a way to stand out after transferring to Chumley Prep, an elite private school where everyone seems to be a star.
After spending the first nine years of his life in prison with his mother, Kabir learns to survive on the streets of Chennai, India, while looking for a way to prove his mother's innocence.
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