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natter

Syllables: nat·ter/ˈnætə/US/ˈnætɚ/

natter verb: to talk casually; to discuss unimportant matters.

Verb

natter (third-person singular simple present natters, present participle nattering, simple past and past participle nattered)

  1. (colloquial) To talk casually; to discuss unimportant matters.
    • What are you guys nattering about? You're clearly not following the meeting!
  2. (Scotland) To nag.

Noun

natter (plural natters)

  1. (colloquial) Mindless and irrelevant chatter.

natter meaning in Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada

natter in Bengali

অসন্তোষভরে গজগজ, বিড়বিড় করা

natter in Malayalam

chat, chatter, talk
സംസാരിക്കുക, നർമ്മസല്ലാപം നടത്തുക, സല്ലപിക്കുക, സംഭാഷണം ചെയ്യുക, വെടി പറയുക, സൊറ പറയുക
chat, chatter, talk
സംസാരം, സല്ലാപം, നർമ്മസല്ലാപം, സംഭാഷണം, രാസം, അലാപം

natter in Kannada

ವಟಗುಟ್ಟು, ವಟವಟನೆ ಮಾತನಾಡು, ಗೊಣಗುಟ್ಟು

Forms of natter

Verb
third-person singular presentnatters
present participlenattering
past participlenattered
pastnattered
Noun
pluralnatters

Origin of natter

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”).

Words formed from natter

Words that rhyme with natter

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Questions about natter

What does natter mean?
Natter means to talk casually; to discuss unimportant matters.
What is natter in Bengali?
Natter in Bengali is অসন্তোষভরে গজগজ, বিড়বিড় করা. See Natter meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is natter?
Natter can be a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce natter?
Natter is pronounced /ˈnætɚ/ (US).
What is the past tense of natter?
The past tense of natter is nattered.

Words near natter in the dictionary

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  4. Nattalie
  5. Natte Yallock
  6. natter
  7. nattered
  8. natterer
  9. Natterer's bat
  10. Natterer's bats
  11. Natterer's slaty antshrike

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: natter (page history and authors); natter (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); natter (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); natter (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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