See yammer in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"derived": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "yammer on"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "ȝameren"
},
"expansion": "Middle English ȝameren",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ang",
"3": "ġeōmrian",
"t": "to lament"
},
"expansion": "Old English ġeōmrian (“to lament”)",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gmw-pro",
"3": "*jāmarōn"
},
"expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *jāmarōn",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*jēmarōną",
"t": "to show misery or sadness"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *jēmarōną (“to show misery or sadness”)",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*jēmaraz",
"t": "miserable, sorrowful, sad"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *jēmaraz (“miserable, sorrowful, sad”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*yem-",
"t": "to hold, match, defeat"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *yem- (“to hold, match, defeat”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "dum",
"3": "jammeren"
},
"expansion": "Middle Dutch jammeren",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "jammeren"
},
"expansion": "Dutch jammeren",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sco",
"2": "yammer"
},
"expansion": "Scots yammer",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "stq",
"2": "jammerje"
},
"expansion": "Saterland Frisian jammerje",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fy",
"2": "jammerje"
},
"expansion": "West Frisian jammerje",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nds-de",
"2": "jammern"
},
"expansion": "German Low German jammern",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "jammern"
},
"expansion": "German jammern",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "da",
"2": "jamre"
},
"expansion": "Danish jamre",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "no",
"2": "jamre"
},
"expansion": "Norwegian jamre",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "non",
"2": "amra",
"t": "to howl, wail, yammer"
},
"expansion": "Old Norse amra (“to howl, wail, yammer”)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English ȝameren, ȝaumeren, yemeren, ȝomeren, from Old English ġeōmrian (“to lament”), from Proto-West Germanic *jāmarōn, from Proto-Germanic *jēmarōną (“to show misery or sadness”), from Proto-Germanic *jēmaraz (“miserable, sorrowful, sad”), from Proto-Indo-European *yem- (“to hold, match, defeat”). Reinforced by cognate Middle Dutch jammeren (modern Dutch jammeren), from the same ultimate origin. Cognate also with Scots yammer, Saterland Frisian jammerje, West Frisian jammerje, German Low German jammern, German jammern, Danish jamre, Norwegian jamre. Compare also Old Norse amra (“to howl, wail, yammer”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "yammers",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "yammering",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "yammered",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "yammered",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "yammer (third-person singular simple present yammers, present participle yammering, simple past and past participle yammered)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "5 16 5 27 4 23 20 1",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Sounds",
"orig": "en:Sounds",
"parents": [
"Sound",
"Energy",
"Nature",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To complain peevishly."
],
"id": "en-yammer-en-verb-odesIM6q",
"links": [
[
"complain",
"complain"
],
[
"peevishly",
"peevishly"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive) To complain peevishly."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"_dis1": "90 0 4 6 0",
"sense": "complain",
"word": "whine"
},
{
"_dis1": "90 0 4 6 0",
"sense": "complain",
"word": "grumble"
}
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "82 4 12 2 0",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "vajkam se",
"sense": "to complain peevishly",
"word": "вайкам се"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 4 12 2 0",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to complain peevishly",
"word": "jammern"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 4 12 2 0",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to complain peevishly",
"word": "nyafog"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 4 12 2 0",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to complain peevishly",
"word": "nyavalyog"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 4 12 2 0",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to complain peevishly",
"word": "sopánkodik"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 4 12 2 0",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to complain peevishly",
"word": "siránkozik"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 4 12 2 0",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to complain peevishly",
"word": "óbégat"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 4 12 2 0",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to complain peevishly",
"word": "jammerol"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 4 12 2 0",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to complain peevishly",
"word": "jajgat"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 4 12 2 0",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to complain peevishly",
"word": "sápítozik"
},
{
"_dis1": "82 4 12 2 0",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "nytʹ",
"sense": "to complain peevishly",
"word": "ныть"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"glosses": [
"To talk loudly and persistently."
],
"id": "en-yammer-en-verb--J4uYJQj",
"links": [
[
"loudly",
"loudly"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive) To talk loudly and persistently."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "1 2 19 19 16 42 1 0",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "3 3 9 21 17 44 2 1",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Entries with translation boxes",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "3 3 24 15 12 30 2 1 3 3 3 2",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 2 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "2 2 17 18 14 38 2 1 2 2 2 2",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "3 6 14 20 14 38 3 2",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "3 4 12 18 14 43 3 2",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with German translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "3 6 17 19 14 37 3 1",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Hungarian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 3 13 23 16 37 3 1",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Russian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "5 16 5 27 4 23 20 1",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Sounds",
"orig": "en:Sounds",
"parents": [
"Sound",
"Energy",
"Nature",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "4 8 13 13 15 43 3 1",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Talking",
"orig": "en:Talking",
"parents": [
"Human behaviour",
"Language",
"Human",
"Communication",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To repeat on and on, usually loudly or in complaint."
],
"id": "en-yammer-en-verb-Hp4rx9Uq",
"links": [
[
"repeat",
"repeat"
],
[
"complaint",
"complaint"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To repeat on and on, usually loudly or in complaint."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 100 0 0",
"sense": "repeat",
"word": "prattle"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 100 0 0",
"sense": "repeat",
"word": "babble"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 100 0 0",
"sense": "repeat",
"word": "yak"
}
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "7 5 87 1 0",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to repeat on and on, usually loudly or in complaint",
"word": "ismételget"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 5 87 1 0",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to repeat on and on, usually loudly or in complaint",
"word": "szajkóz"
},
{
"_dis1": "7 5 87 1 0",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to repeat on and on, usually loudly or in complaint",
"word": "hajtogat"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "5 16 5 27 4 23 20 1",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Sounds",
"orig": "en:Sounds",
"parents": [
"Sound",
"Energy",
"Nature",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1951, Isaac Asimov, ““The Merchant Princes”, chapter 17”, in Foundation, part V, Panther Books Ltd, published 1974, page 182:",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To make an outcry; to clamor."
],
"id": "en-yammer-en-verb-Yej7MkaF",
"links": [
[
"outcry",
"outcry"
],
[
"clamor",
"clamor"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive, rare) To make an outcry; to clamor."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive",
"rare"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "2 0 1 97 0",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to make an outcry; to clamor",
"word": "óbégat"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 0 1 97 0",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to make an outcry; to clamor",
"word": "kiált"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 0 1 97 0",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to make an outcry; to clamor",
"word": "rikolt"
},
{
"_dis1": "2 0 1 97 0",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to make an outcry; to clamor",
"word": "szól"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"glosses": [
"to repeatedly call someone's name."
],
"id": "en-yammer-en-verb-pwGbOJMy",
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive) to repeatedly call someone's name."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈjæm.ə/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈjæm.ɚ/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"audio": "en-us-yammer.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b4/En-us-yammer.ogg/En-us-yammer.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b4/En-us-yammer.ogg"
},
{
"audio": "en-au-yammer.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/48/En-au-yammer.ogg/En-au-yammer.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/48/En-au-yammer.ogg"
},
{
"rhymes": "-æmə(ɹ)"
}
],
"word": "yammer"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "ȝameren"
},
"expansion": "Middle English ȝameren",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ang",
"3": "ġeōmrian",
"t": "to lament"
},
"expansion": "Old English ġeōmrian (“to lament”)",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gmw-pro",
"3": "*jāmarōn"
},
"expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *jāmarōn",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*jēmarōną",
"t": "to show misery or sadness"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *jēmarōną (“to show misery or sadness”)",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*jēmaraz",
"t": "miserable, sorrowful, sad"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *jēmaraz (“miserable, sorrowful, sad”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*yem-",
"t": "to hold, match, defeat"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *yem- (“to hold, match, defeat”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "dum",
"3": "jammeren"
},
"expansion": "Middle Dutch jammeren",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "jammeren"
},
"expansion": "Dutch jammeren",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sco",
"2": "yammer"
},
"expansion": "Scots yammer",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "stq",
"2": "jammerje"
},
"expansion": "Saterland Frisian jammerje",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fy",
"2": "jammerje"
},
"expansion": "West Frisian jammerje",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nds-de",
"2": "jammern"
},
"expansion": "German Low German jammern",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "jammern"
},
"expansion": "German jammern",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "da",
"2": "jamre"
},
"expansion": "Danish jamre",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "no",
"2": "jamre"
},
"expansion": "Norwegian jamre",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "non",
"2": "amra",
"t": "to howl, wail, yammer"
},
"expansion": "Old Norse amra (“to howl, wail, yammer”)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English ȝameren, ȝaumeren, yemeren, ȝomeren, from Old English ġeōmrian (“to lament”), from Proto-West Germanic *jāmarōn, from Proto-Germanic *jēmarōną (“to show misery or sadness”), from Proto-Germanic *jēmaraz (“miserable, sorrowful, sad”), from Proto-Indo-European *yem- (“to hold, match, defeat”). Reinforced by cognate Middle Dutch jammeren (modern Dutch jammeren), from the same ultimate origin. Cognate also with Scots yammer, Saterland Frisian jammerje, West Frisian jammerje, German Low German jammern, German jammern, Danish jamre, Norwegian jamre. Compare also Old Norse amra (“to howl, wail, yammer”).",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "-"
},
"expansion": "yammer (uncountable)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1999, J. M. Coetzee, chapter 8, in Disgrace, Penguin, published 2000, pages 72–73:",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The act or noise of yammering."
],
"id": "en-yammer-en-noun-niGYaT1I",
"links": [
[
"yammering",
"yammering"
]
],
"tags": [
"uncountable"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "95 4 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "The act or noise of yammering",
"word": "Jammer"
},
{
"_dis1": "95 4 1",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "nytʹjó",
"sense": "The act or noise of yammering",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "нытьё"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "5 16 5 27 4 23 20 1",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Sounds",
"orig": "en:Sounds",
"parents": [
"Sound",
"Energy",
"Nature",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1943, R. Sidney Bown, chapter 12, in Dave Dawson with the Flying Tigers, Akron, Ohio: Saalfield Publishing Company:",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A loud noise."
],
"id": "en-yammer-en-noun-YKqsyK5y",
"links": [
[
"noise",
"noise"
]
],
"tags": [
"uncountable"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"One who yammers."
],
"id": "en-yammer-en-noun-hE7JaRAw",
"links": [
[
"yammers",
"yammers"
]
],
"tags": [
"uncountable"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "1 0 99",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "nytik",
"sense": "One who yammers",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "нытик"
}
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈjæm.ə/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈjæm.ɚ/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"audio": "en-us-yammer.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b4/En-us-yammer.ogg/En-us-yammer.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b4/En-us-yammer.ogg"
},
{
"audio": "en-au-yammer.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/48/En-au-yammer.ogg/En-au-yammer.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/48/En-au-yammer.ogg"
},
{
"rhymes": "-æmə(ɹ)"
}
],
"word": "yammer"
}
{
"categories": [
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms derived from Middle Dutch",
"English terms derived from Middle English",
"English terms derived from Old English",
"English terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
"English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
"English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic",
"English terms inherited from Middle English",
"English terms inherited from Old English",
"English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
"English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic",
"English uncountable nouns",
"English verbs",
"Entries with translation boxes",
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Rhymes:English/æmə(ɹ)",
"Rhymes:English/æmə(ɹ)/2 syllables",
"Terms with Bulgarian translations",
"Terms with German translations",
"Terms with Hungarian translations",
"Terms with Russian translations",
"en:Sounds",
"en:Talking"
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "yammer on"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "ȝameren"
},
"expansion": "Middle English ȝameren",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ang",
"3": "ġeōmrian",
"t": "to lament"
},
"expansion": "Old English ġeōmrian (“to lament”)",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gmw-pro",
"3": "*jāmarōn"
},
"expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *jāmarōn",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*jēmarōną",
"t": "to show misery or sadness"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *jēmarōną (“to show misery or sadness”)",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*jēmaraz",
"t": "miserable, sorrowful, sad"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *jēmaraz (“miserable, sorrowful, sad”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*yem-",
"t": "to hold, match, defeat"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *yem- (“to hold, match, defeat”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "dum",
"3": "jammeren"
},
"expansion": "Middle Dutch jammeren",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "jammeren"
},
"expansion": "Dutch jammeren",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sco",
"2": "yammer"
},
"expansion": "Scots yammer",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "stq",
"2": "jammerje"
},
"expansion": "Saterland Frisian jammerje",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fy",
"2": "jammerje"
},
"expansion": "West Frisian jammerje",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nds-de",
"2": "jammern"
},
"expansion": "German Low German jammern",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "jammern"
},
"expansion": "German jammern",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "da",
"2": "jamre"
},
"expansion": "Danish jamre",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "no",
"2": "jamre"
},
"expansion": "Norwegian jamre",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "non",
"2": "amra",
"t": "to howl, wail, yammer"
},
"expansion": "Old Norse amra (“to howl, wail, yammer”)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English ȝameren, ȝaumeren, yemeren, ȝomeren, from Old English ġeōmrian (“to lament”), from Proto-West Germanic *jāmarōn, from Proto-Germanic *jēmarōną (“to show misery or sadness”), from Proto-Germanic *jēmaraz (“miserable, sorrowful, sad”), from Proto-Indo-European *yem- (“to hold, match, defeat”). Reinforced by cognate Middle Dutch jammeren (modern Dutch jammeren), from the same ultimate origin. Cognate also with Scots yammer, Saterland Frisian jammerje, West Frisian jammerje, German Low German jammern, German jammern, Danish jamre, Norwegian jamre. Compare also Old Norse amra (“to howl, wail, yammer”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "yammers",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "yammering",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "yammered",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "yammered",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "yammer (third-person singular simple present yammers, present participle yammering, simple past and past participle yammered)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"To complain peevishly."
],
"links": [
[
"complain",
"complain"
],
[
"peevishly",
"peevishly"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive) To complain peevishly."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"To talk loudly and persistently."
],
"links": [
[
"loudly",
"loudly"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive) To talk loudly and persistently."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English transitive verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"To repeat on and on, usually loudly or in complaint."
],
"links": [
[
"repeat",
"repeat"
],
[
"complaint",
"complaint"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To repeat on and on, usually loudly or in complaint."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs",
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with rare senses"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1951, Isaac Asimov, ““The Merchant Princes”, chapter 17”, in Foundation, part V, Panther Books Ltd, published 1974, page 182:",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To make an outcry; to clamor."
],
"links": [
[
"outcry",
"outcry"
],
[
"clamor",
"clamor"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive, rare) To make an outcry; to clamor."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive",
"rare"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"to repeatedly call someone's name."
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive) to repeatedly call someone's name."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈjæm.ə/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈjæm.ɚ/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"audio": "en-us-yammer.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b4/En-us-yammer.ogg/En-us-yammer.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b4/En-us-yammer.ogg"
},
{
"audio": "en-au-yammer.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/48/En-au-yammer.ogg/En-au-yammer.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/48/En-au-yammer.ogg"
},
{
"rhymes": "-æmə(ɹ)"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"sense": "complain",
"word": "whine"
},
{
"sense": "complain",
"word": "grumble"
},
{
"sense": "repeat",
"word": "prattle"
},
{
"sense": "repeat",
"word": "babble"
},
{
"sense": "repeat",
"word": "yak"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "vajkam se",
"sense": "to complain peevishly",
"word": "вайкам се"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to complain peevishly",
"word": "jammern"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to complain peevishly",
"word": "nyafog"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to complain peevishly",
"word": "nyavalyog"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to complain peevishly",
"word": "sopánkodik"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to complain peevishly",
"word": "siránkozik"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to complain peevishly",
"word": "óbégat"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to complain peevishly",
"word": "jammerol"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to complain peevishly",
"word": "jajgat"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to complain peevishly",
"word": "sápítozik"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "nytʹ",
"sense": "to complain peevishly",
"word": "ныть"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to repeat on and on, usually loudly or in complaint",
"word": "ismételget"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to repeat on and on, usually loudly or in complaint",
"word": "szajkóz"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to repeat on and on, usually loudly or in complaint",
"word": "hajtogat"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to make an outcry; to clamor",
"word": "óbégat"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to make an outcry; to clamor",
"word": "kiált"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to make an outcry; to clamor",
"word": "rikolt"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to make an outcry; to clamor",
"word": "szól"
}
],
"word": "yammer"
}
{
"categories": [
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms derived from Middle Dutch",
"English terms derived from Middle English",
"English terms derived from Old English",
"English terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
"English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
"English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic",
"English terms inherited from Middle English",
"English terms inherited from Old English",
"English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
"English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic",
"English uncountable nouns",
"English verbs",
"Entries with translation boxes",
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Rhymes:English/æmə(ɹ)",
"Rhymes:English/æmə(ɹ)/2 syllables",
"Terms with Bulgarian translations",
"Terms with German translations",
"Terms with Hungarian translations",
"Terms with Russian translations",
"en:Sounds",
"en:Talking"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "ȝameren"
},
"expansion": "Middle English ȝameren",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ang",
"3": "ġeōmrian",
"t": "to lament"
},
"expansion": "Old English ġeōmrian (“to lament”)",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gmw-pro",
"3": "*jāmarōn"
},
"expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *jāmarōn",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*jēmarōną",
"t": "to show misery or sadness"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *jēmarōną (“to show misery or sadness”)",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*jēmaraz",
"t": "miserable, sorrowful, sad"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *jēmaraz (“miserable, sorrowful, sad”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*yem-",
"t": "to hold, match, defeat"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *yem- (“to hold, match, defeat”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "dum",
"3": "jammeren"
},
"expansion": "Middle Dutch jammeren",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "jammeren"
},
"expansion": "Dutch jammeren",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sco",
"2": "yammer"
},
"expansion": "Scots yammer",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "stq",
"2": "jammerje"
},
"expansion": "Saterland Frisian jammerje",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fy",
"2": "jammerje"
},
"expansion": "West Frisian jammerje",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nds-de",
"2": "jammern"
},
"expansion": "German Low German jammern",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "jammern"
},
"expansion": "German jammern",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "da",
"2": "jamre"
},
"expansion": "Danish jamre",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "no",
"2": "jamre"
},
"expansion": "Norwegian jamre",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "non",
"2": "amra",
"t": "to howl, wail, yammer"
},
"expansion": "Old Norse amra (“to howl, wail, yammer”)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English ȝameren, ȝaumeren, yemeren, ȝomeren, from Old English ġeōmrian (“to lament”), from Proto-West Germanic *jāmarōn, from Proto-Germanic *jēmarōną (“to show misery or sadness”), from Proto-Germanic *jēmaraz (“miserable, sorrowful, sad”), from Proto-Indo-European *yem- (“to hold, match, defeat”). Reinforced by cognate Middle Dutch jammeren (modern Dutch jammeren), from the same ultimate origin. Cognate also with Scots yammer, Saterland Frisian jammerje, West Frisian jammerje, German Low German jammern, German jammern, Danish jamre, Norwegian jamre. Compare also Old Norse amra (“to howl, wail, yammer”).",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "-"
},
"expansion": "yammer (uncountable)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1999, J. M. Coetzee, chapter 8, in Disgrace, Penguin, published 2000, pages 72–73:",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The act or noise of yammering."
],
"links": [
[
"yammering",
"yammering"
]
],
"tags": [
"uncountable"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1943, R. Sidney Bown, chapter 12, in Dave Dawson with the Flying Tigers, Akron, Ohio: Saalfield Publishing Company:",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A loud noise."
],
"links": [
[
"noise",
"noise"
]
],
"tags": [
"uncountable"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"One who yammers."
],
"links": [
[
"yammers",
"yammers"
]
],
"tags": [
"uncountable"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈjæm.ə/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈjæm.ɚ/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"audio": "en-us-yammer.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b4/En-us-yammer.ogg/En-us-yammer.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b4/En-us-yammer.ogg"
},
{
"audio": "en-au-yammer.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/48/En-au-yammer.ogg/En-au-yammer.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/48/En-au-yammer.ogg"
},
{
"rhymes": "-æmə(ɹ)"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "The act or noise of yammering",
"word": "Jammer"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "nytʹjó",
"sense": "The act or noise of yammering",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "нытьё"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "nytik",
"sense": "One who yammers",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "нытик"
}
],
"word": "yammer"
}
Download raw JSONL data for yammer meaning in English (13.8kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-10 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (df33d17 and 4ed51a5). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.