YAMMER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does yammer mean? 

• YAMMER (verb)
  The verb YAMMER has 2 senses:

1. cry loudly, as of animals

2. complain whiningly

  Familiarity information: YAMMER used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• YAMMER (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they yammer    ... he / she / it yammers   
Past simple: yammered   
Past participle: yammered   
-ing form: yammering   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cry loudly, as of animals

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

howl; wrawl; yammer; yowl

Context example:

The coyotes were howling in the desert

Hypernyms (to "yammer" is one way to...):

emit; let loose; let out; utter (express audibly; utter sounds (not necessarily words))

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

Sentence examples:

You can hear animals yammer in the meadows
The meadows yammer with animals

Sense 2

Meaning:

Complain whiningly

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

grizzle; whine; yammer; yawp

Hypernyms (to "yammer" is one way to...):

complain; kick; kvetch; plain; quetch; sound off (express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness)

Verb group:

snivel; whine (talk in a tearful manner)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE