nattery
nattery adjective: talkative; chatty.
Adjective
nattery (comparative more nattery, superlative most nattery)
- talkative; chatty
- She was a maddening person from whom you would flee if you met her in real life: a nattery, chattery, high-strung, high-flown bundle of pretensions with a lot of Ancient Mariner in her. But on the screen, a delight.2006, Mary McGrory, Phil Gailey, The Best of Mary McGrory: A Half-Century of Washington Commentary
- Some people can indeed do much of their narrating in a nattery manner, verbalizing whatever pops into their heads in the same basic disorder. Chatterboxes, we call them: motor-mouths.2008, William L. Randall, Elizabeth McKim, Reading Our Lives: The Poetics of Growing Old, page 37
- peevish
Forms of nattery
| comparative | more nattery |
|---|---|
| superlative | most nattery |
Origin of nattery
From natter + -y.
Questions about nattery
- What does nattery mean?
- Nattery means talkative; chatty.
- What part of speech is nattery?
- Nattery is an adjective.
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