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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
natter
I.verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ I can't stand about nattering all day with you
▪ Keith and Tom were nattering about cars and not doing a stroke of work.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ For years, I would natter on, whether it was about business or personal matters.
▪ Rounding off the evening were excellent refreshments and the chance to natter.
▪ To gossip: to natter, to prattle, to chatter, to tittle-tattle, to jabber, to jaw.
II.noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ I could do with a drink and a natter.
▪ She'd have a natter with him if he were, something she often did on her half-days.
▪ Then sometimes she would pick up the telephone and natter to Charles.
▪ We might sit down and have a bit of a natter and a cup of tea.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Natter

Natter \Nat"ter\, v. i. [Cf. Icel. knetta to grumble.]

  1. To find fault; to be peevish. [Prov. Eng. or Scot.]

  2. To talk constantly; to chatter incessantly to prattle; as, nattering like a chatterbox.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
natter

"grumble, chatter aimlessly, nag," 1829, northern England dialect variant of gnatter "to chatter, grumble," earlier (18c.) "to nibble away," probably of echoic origin. Related: Nattered; nattering. As a noun, 1866, from the verb.

Wiktionary
natter

n. (context colloquial English) Mindless and irrelevant chatter. vb. 1 (context colloquial English) To talk without purpose. 2 (context Scotland English) To nag.

WordNet
natter

v. talk socially without exchanging too much information; "the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze" [syn: chew the fat, shoot the breeze, chat, confabulate, confab, chitchat, chatter, chaffer, gossip, jaw, claver, visit]

Wikipedia
Natter

Natter may refer to:

  • Bachem Ba 349, a German manned rocket interceptor from World War II
  • Boniface Natter, first post-Reformation abbot of Buckfast Abbey
  • Robert J. Natter, US Navy Admiral
  • Tobias G. Natter, Austrian art historian and museums director
  • Natter, an instant messaging client
  • Natter, a social network

Usage examples of "natter".

Gerri natters on, from bats and sex and reincarnation to -- working hard now to amuse her audience -- stale crowd-pleasers of lust and gaucherie among her wealthy clientele, Rho is pleasantly tuned to the resonant sound of hissing meat.

The ladies returned, Miss Grirnsley nattering about the beautiful chandelier, which caused the Ancient to roll his eyes heavenward, or chandelierward.

We laugh now to hear the Tories abusing Mussolini when they were nattering him five years ago, but who would have foretold in 1927 that the Left would one day take Chiang Kai-shek to its bosom?

The tech ratings were far too nattered to think of going and Helva was certain that the next time Niall Parollan needed an urgent electrical systems job done, these same men would leap at the chance to work on it.

Bill and Arlie were on the sofa, and she was telling him stories about Earth, lies about the wonderful animals that lived there, trying to distract him from his obsessive nattering about the barnacles.

She paused because she was nattering on aimlessly, anxious to sound like the nurse whom he employed and not like a girl who was head over heels in love with him.

Gerri natters on, from bats and sex and reincarnation to -- working hard now to amuse her audience -- stale crowd-pleasers of lust and gaucherie among her wealthy clientele, Rho is pleasantly tuned to the resonant sound of hissing meat.

Ginger, impatient with the nattering, suddenly hip-checked Little Becky out of contention.

The diverse demands and unforeseen surges of the day, in tandem with tonight's elevated blood alcohol levels, have driven her circuitry into a sputtering staticky condition near brownout or worse, she's phasing eccentrically in and out, her attention temporarily and fiercely magnetized by the oddest fragments of isolated fact, so while Gerri natters on, from bats and sex and reincarnation to -- working hard now to amuse her audience -- stale crowd-pleasers of lust and gaucherie among her wealthy clientele, Rho is pleasantly tuned to the resonant sound of hissing meat.

I get to natter on about a subject that I'm nearly autistically fixated on, and I do it in a context where I know that I'm sane and smart and charming and occasionally mind-blowing.

Meanwhile, Gran and Linda nattered away like old friends, making plans for the week: the zoo, the island, a day trip to Niagara Falls, a ride up the CN Tower, all the touristy stuff that Art had last done in elementary school.

The beast had transfixed her with a gaze that would have done a basilisk proud, yet here she was, nattering like some fishmonger's wife.

The woman nattered on about the Mother putting her feet up, and perhaps she should fetch the Mother a lap robe, and maybe she should stay in case the Mother wanted anything else, until Egwene practically chased her out.

He waved a nattering of flies, probably pink medflies, he thought, away from his face, went down the loading-dock stairs and walked out through the garage door.

Or the fact that our nosy little Georgi's sculling around the place night and day, and nattering Greek to me nineteen to the dozen.