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yam⋅mer

[yam-er] Informal.
–verb (used without object)
1. to whine or complain.
2. to make an outcry or clamor.
3. to talk loudly and persistently.
–verb (used with object)
4. to utter clamorously, persistently, or in complaint: They yammered their complaints until she let them see the movie.
–noun
5. the act or noise of yammering.

Origin:
1275–1325; ME yameren (v.) < MD jam(m)eren, r. ME yomeren, OE gēomrian to complain, deriv. of gēomor sad; akin to G Jammer lamentation


yam⋅mer⋅er, noun
yam⋅mer⋅ing⋅ly, adverb
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yam·mer   (yām'ər)   
v.   yam·mered, yam·mer·ing, yam·mers

v.   intr.
  1. To complain peevishly or whimperingly; whine.

  2. To talk volubly and loudly.

v.   tr.
To utter or say in a complaining or clamorous tone.
n.  The act of yammering.

[Middle English yameren, to lament, probably from Middle Flemish jammeren, to be sorrowful.]
yam'mer·er n.
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yammer 
1481, "to lament," probably from M.Du. jammeren and cognate M.E. yeoumeren, "to mourn, complain," from O.E. geomrian "to lament," from geomor "sorrowful," probably of imitative origin. Meaning "to make loud, annoying noise" is attested from 1513.
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