natter

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

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

From Fox News ● Oct. 1, 2020

The leaves natter even if you can’t see them.

From New York Times ● Nov. 17, 2016

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

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

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

David Azerrad, a political science professor at conservative Hillsdale College, said that "for now, I think the president can continue to ignore the nattering nabobs".

From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2026

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

He started walking again, nattering on and on about plots and conspiracies and battle plans and secrets, but truth be told, my mind drifted.

From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson