sb. [Reduplication of CLATTER.] Alternating repetition of clattering noise; garrulous talk, tittle-tattle.

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1535.  Lyndesay, Satyre, 616. Was nevir sene sic wind and rane Nor of Schipmen sic clitter clatter.

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1578.  Lupton, All for Money (1851), 163. You may see, sir, olde women have much clitter clatter.

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1697.  W. Cleland, Poems, 103 (Jam.). Shall all your while Be spent in idle clitter-clatter.

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1722.  Ramsay, Monk & Miller’s Wife, 73, Poems 1728, II. 225.

        Thus after meikle Clitter-clatter,
James fand he coudna mend the Matter.

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1884.  St. James’s Gaz., 13 June, 4/2. Touch a bag of bones and you are deafened by the clitter-clatter.

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