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natter

[nat-er] / ˈnæt ər /
VERB
buzz
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The pair recently met in Bridgend for a "good natter" about their shared hobby.

From BBC ● Mar. 28, 2024

The other ladies who gather to knit and natter in her small English village thought the ears should be bigger.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 30, 2023

At one point, as the two natter self-righteously to each other about male pathology, a female worker in the background turns around and gives them a quick look over her shoulder.

From New York Times ● Aug. 29, 2021

While politicians natter, markets move on as individuals and organizations chart their own courses.

From Fox News ● Oct. 1, 2020

Eavesdropping's wrong, I know, but it was hardly my fault if Mum and Aunt Alice chose to natter right outside the ventilator flaps, was it?

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

Clocks should be seen to be stopped for goal celebrations, substitutions, natters before set-pieces, rolling around and whenever the ball goes out of play.

From The Guardian ● May 15, 2016

As Erie natters on in an eager, fitful string of clichés, bringing to mind the sort of garrulous salesman you’d normally cross the street to avoid, Mr. Whitaker quietly breaks your heart.

From New York Times ● Feb. 25, 2016

Instead of plunging into psychobabble, Carr simply plys his lineup with Pink Lady and natters.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 13, 2010

In a spray of wildly allusive wordplay, David Helfgott natters compulsively, cheerfully, to himself.

From Time Magazine Archive

“Of course. She spent all afternoon with her,” my mom says, and then natters on about how Nat’s not supposed to count.

From "Al Capone Does My Shirts" by Gennifer Choldenko

Its members have nattered on endlessly about their responsibility to safeguard the taxpayers’ money.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2024

We chatted about bus times, we talked about the meal I was cooking, we just nattered.

From BBC ● Jan. 14, 2023

Scheuer mused, “I have nattered on here longer than I intended.”

From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2018

The wife of a candidate for county commissioner in Travis County, Tex., looked at the camera dryly as her husband nattered incessantly about details of county policy.

From New York Times ● Nov. 6, 2016

The old woman had nattered at him for ten years, telling her endless stories, but now she gaped at him as if he were some stranger.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

The nattering negativity worked: He easily beat Bradley.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

To hear the nattering nabobs of Wall Street, you’d think the latest jobs figures, out Friday, show that labor has never had it so good.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 4, 2026

"Our chats lasted for hours and he'll be up there now nattering away and keeping everyone laughing."

From BBC ● Mar. 29, 2023

There’s a point where the volume on everything — the traffic noise, the pink and purple sprays of wildflowers, my nattering thoughts — turns way down, and then goes completely silent.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 27, 2022

Would it come into the world gossiping and nattering on about inconsequential nothings?

From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon


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