[f. CHATTER v. + -ING2.] That chatters (in various senses of the verb). Hence Chatteringly adv.
a. 1225. Ancr. R., 152. Sparuwe is a cheaterinde brid.
1509. Barclay, Ship of Fooles (1570), 39. Take example by the chattering pye.
1596. Shaks., Tam. Shr., IV. ii. 58. To tame a shrew, and charme her chattering tongue.
1781. Cowper, Convers., 457. Leader of a chattering train.
1864. Lowell, Fireside Trav., 223. To intrude chatteringly upon the midnight privacy of Apollo.
