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nattery

nattery adjective: talkative; chatty.

Adjective

nattery (comparative more nattery, superlative most nattery)

  1. (informal) 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
  2. peevish

Forms of nattery

comparativemore nattery
superlativemost 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.

Words near nattery in the dictionary

  1. natterings
  2. natterjack
  3. natterjacks
  4. natters
  5. nattersome
  6. nattery
  7. nattes
  8. nattie
  9. nattier
  10. Nattier blue
  11. Nattier blues

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