1. 1

    To talk on and on in a way that wears the listener out — loud, fast, endless, and not worth listening to. It is the sound as much as the words: someone yammering is noise you wish would stop. You will meet it as a verb, usually with "on" or "away" or "about": he yammered on about his car; they were yammering away in the next room. It can also be a noun for that noise — the yammer of the crowd, the yammer of a radio nobody is listening to. It is informal, comic, and always about the : nobody yammers in a way you enjoy. It is not a strong insult, though, more the word of a tired person than an angry one, and it is more common in American and British journalism than in everyday Taiwanese-classroom English. Two extra things. It gets used for machines and animals too — dogs yammer, engines yammer, a phone yammers at you — anything making a continuous complaining . And there is an older, gentler meaning, now mostly gone from ordinary speech but alive in old books and in dialect: to whine, wail or complain in distress. That is in fact where the word started, and you can still hear the whining edge inside the modern "talk too much" meaning.

    碎碎念、講個不停(吵到別人);也可指持續的嘈雜聲。跟中文「碎念」很像,但 yammer 更強調音量和吵。

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組成From Middle English ȝameren, from Old English ġeōmrian, "to lament, to mourn" — so the word began as a cry of misery, and only later became endless annoying talk. It was reinforced in English by the very similar Dutch jammeren, of the same origin.

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  • jammernthe German cousin, still meaning to wail or complain — same Germanic root

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yammerverb/ˈjæm.ə/

  • 1

    To complain peevishly.

  • 2

    To talk loudly and persistently.

  • 3

    To repeat on and on, usually loudly or in complaint.

  • 4

    rareTo make an outcry; to clamor.

    • 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.
  • 5

    to repeatedly call someone's name.

yammernoun/ˈjæm.ə/

  • 1

    The act or noise of yammering.

    • 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.
  • 2

    A loud noise.

    • 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.
  • 3

    One who yammers.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。