Yammer

Quick meaning: Yammer is a verb meaning (intransitive) To complain peevishly.

Meaning

(intransitive) To complain peevishly.

More Meanings

1. (intransitive) To talk loudly and persistently.
2. (transitive) To repeat on and on, usually loudly or in complaint.
3. (intransitive, rare) To make an outcry; to clamor.
4. (intransitive) to repeatedly call someone's name.
5. The act or noise of yammering.
6. A loud noise.
7. One who yammers.

Example Sentences

It was a ship, but a whale to the Dark Nebula’s minnow; and on its side was the Spaceship-and-Sun of the Empire. Every alarm on the ship yammered hysterically.

The ungodly scream of Jap wings in the wind, and the blood-chilling snarl and yammer of their aerial machine gun and aerial cannon fire was enough to make the very ground shake and tremble.

The house is just as he had imagined it would be: rubbishy furniture, a clutter of ornaments (porcelain shepherdesses, cowbells, an ostrich-feather flywhisk), the yammer of the radio, the cheeping of birds in cages, cats everywhere underfoot.

Word Forms

• yammers
• yammering
• yammered

Synonyms for yammer

Depending on context, synonyms include whine, grumble, prattle, babble, yak, howl.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include whine, wrawl, yawp, yowl, howl, grizzle.

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