natter
Mindless and irrelevant chatterMindless and irrelevant chatter.
Recorded UK: Speaker: Vealhurl Recorder: Vealhurl, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
Meaning
1 senses(colloquial)Mindless and irrelevant chatter.
Examples
3 sentencesTom had a natter with Mary.
Том побалакав з Мері. — deniko
She's still nattering on.
deSie quasselt immer noch. — Esperantostern
Whenever Tom and Mary see each other out and about, they always stop and have a natter.
deImmer, wenn sich Tom und Maria unterwegs begegnen, bleiben sie stehen und plaudern miteinander. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
Origin
From a Northern England dialectal variant of gnatter (also knatter) ("to chatter, grumble;From a Northern England dialectal variant of gnatter (also knatter) ("to chatter, grumble; nibble away at"), ultimately of imitative origin. Cognate with German Low German gnattern (“to mumble, grumble, be grouchy”).
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Forms
plural: nattersWord family
1 related wordsSee also
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