different between yammer vs mammer

English

Etymology

Probably from Middle Dutch jammeren. Cognate with and reinforced by Middle English yeoumeren (“to mourn, complain”), from Old English ?e?mrian (“to lament”), from ?e?mor (“sorrowful”), from Proto-West Germanic [Term?], from Proto-Germanic *j?maraz (“miserable, sorrowful”), from Proto-Indo-European *yem- (“to hold, match, defeat”). Akin to German jammern.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?jæm.?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?jæm.?/
• Rhymes: -æm?(r)

Verb

yammer (third-person singular simple present yammers, present participle yammering, simple past and past participle yammered)

1. (intransitive) To complain peevishly.
2. (intransitive) To talk loudly and persistently.
3. (transitive) To repeat on and on, usually loudly or in complaint.
4. (intransitive, rare) To make an outcry; to clamor.
   • 1951, Isaac Asimov, Foundation (1974 Panther Books Ltd 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 Thesaurus:complain

Translations

Noun

yammer (uncountable)

1. The act or noise of yammering.
   • 1999, J. M. Coetzee, Disgrace, Penguin, 2000, Chapter Eight, pp. 72-73,

     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.

2. A loud noise.
   • 1943, R. Sidney Bown, Dave Dawson with the Flying Tigers, Akron, Ohio: Saalfield Publishing Company, Chapter Twelve,^[1]

     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.

3. One who yammers.

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References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “yammer”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
• “yammer” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

Scots

Verb

yammer (third-person singular present yammers, present participle yammerin, past yammert, past participle yammert)

1. (intransitive) to lament
2. (intransitive) to yearn for something

Noun

yammer (uncountable)

1. a cry of lamentation
2. the act of yammerin

English

Etymology

From Middle English mameren (“to hesitate, be undecided, waver, mutter”), from Old English m?mrian, m?morian (“to think through, deliberate, plan out, design”), from Proto-Germanic *maimr?n? (“to take care, worry”), from Proto-Indo-European *mer-, *smer- (“to fall into thought, remember, take care”). Related to Old English m?mor (“deep thought, deep sleep, unconsciousness”), Old English mimorian (“to remember”), Dutch mijmeren (“to ponder, muse”). More at remember.

Verb

mammer (third-person singular simple present mammers, present participle mammering, simple past and past participle mammered)

1. (rare) To hesitate.

   Tell me, Othello: I wonder in my soul, What you would ask me, that I should deny, Or stand so mammering on — Shakespeare, Othello.

2. (rare) To mumble or stammer from doubt or hesitation.

Derived terms

• mammery
• mammering

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