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Hammering vs Yammering - What's the difference?

hammering | yammering |

As nouns the difference between hammering and yammering

is that hammering is a period of being beaten or hammered while yammering is loud, incoherent, repetitive speech.

As verbs the difference between hammering and yammering

is that hammering is while yammering is .

hammering

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A period of being beaten or hammered.
    • Repeated hammerings by the smith thin the metal and make it tough.
    Hearing a hammering on the door, I ran downstairs to open it.
  • A heavy defeat
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=April 10 , author=Alistair Magowan , title=Aston Villa 1 - 0 Newcastle , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Villa spent most of the second period probing from wide areas and had a succession of corners but despite their profligacy they will be glad to overturn the 6-0 hammering they suffered at St James' Park in August following former boss Martin O'Neill's departure }}

    Verb

    (head)

    • yammering

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Loud, incoherent, repetitive speech.
  • * (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Lost on Venus
    • Nearer and nearer sounded the hurrying footsteps and the incoherent yammerings of the corpses.