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Jabber vs Yammer - What's the difference?

jabber | yammer |

As verbs the difference between jabber and yammer

is that jabber is (label) to talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense while yammer is to complain peevishly.

As nouns the difference between jabber and yammer

is that jabber is rapid or incoherent talk, with indistinct utterance; gibberish while yammer is the act or noise of yammering.

jabber

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • (label) To talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense.
  • (label) To utter rapidly or indistinctly; to gabble.
  • *, chapter=12
  • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=She had Lord James' collar in one big fist and she pounded the table with the other and talked a blue streak. Nobody could make out plain what she said, for she was mainly jabbering Swede lingo, but there was English enough, of a kind, to give us some idee.}}

    Noun

    (-)
  • Rapid or incoherent talk, with indistinct utterance; gibberish.
  • (Jonathan Swift)

    yammer

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To complain peevishly.
  • To talk loudly and persistently.
  • To repeat on and on, usually loudly or in complaint.
  • (rare) To make an outcry; to clamor.
  • * 1951 , publication), part V: “The Merchant Princes”, chapter 17, page 182, ¶ 1
  • 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.

    Synonyms

    * (complain) whine, grumble * (repeat) prattle, babble, yak * See also

    Noun

    (-)
  • The act or noise of yammering.
  • A loud noise.
  • One who yammers.
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