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   Yam·mer

   /ˈyamər/

   

   verb

   • 1. talk foolishly or incessantly: "he was yammering on as if he had an enthralled audience at his feet"
   • ▪ make a loud, repetitive noise: "the seismographs were yammering for days"

   noun

   • 1. foolish or incessant talk: "the look on his face stopped Bob's nervous yammer"
   • ▪ loud and sustained or repetitive noise: "the yammer of enemy fire"

   Word Origin late Middle English (as a verb meaning ‘lament, cry out’): alteration of earlier yomer, from Old English geōmrian ‘to lament’, suggested by Middle Dutch jammeren.

   Derivatives

   • 1. yammerer noun

   Scrabble Points: 13

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   • A

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   • M

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   • M

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   • E

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   • R

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