natter

Meaning

Verb

1. (colloquial) To talk casually; to discuss unimportant matters.
2. To nag.

Noun

Mindless and irrelevant chatter.

Synonyms

chatter

chat

chitchat

chaffer

gossip

confab

babble

visit

chew the fat

claver

confabulate

jaw

gab

shoot the breeze

grumble

blather

chit-chat

schmooze

grouse

growl

jabber

nag

prate

prattle

rabbit on

spiel

talk

🗣️

tattle

schmoose

twaddle

blabber

witter

yak

yammer

yap

blab

carp

yabber

burble

shmooze

clack

shmoose

croak

gabble

gnaw

grouch

Hyphenated as

nat‧ter

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈnætɚ/

Etymology

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”).