natter
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For the fans in need of a good old-fashioned British boozer to natter away in all night, they're satisfied at the Quayside.
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2025
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
Natter natter, you’re always on the tiny beach.
From "We Were Liars" by E. Lockhart
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
Does that mean you have to be silent while everyone else natters on with lofty ideas about the "video revolution"?
From Time Magazine Archive
A squirrel raiding our bird feeder natters at me in irritation before it hops away to try its luck at the bird feeder two houses over.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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
We walked on, and he nattered away for a while.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
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
“One day I was driving around with a close friend of Rob’s nattering about this exact question,” Hobbs recalled.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 23, 2023
When he begins nattering on about not being racist, she shuts off the TV.
From New York Times ● Sep. 22, 2022
It is because of her nattering on at me while I was hard at work that she has fallen behind.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
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