| 单词 | natter |
| 释义 | natter (once / 36145 pages) v To natter is to talk at length about unimportant things. When you feel a little awkward and uncomfortable at a party, you might natter to the one person you know there for far too long. To natter is to chatter or blather or jabber — you don't natter about serious or deep topics. If you gossip with your neighbor for a few minutes, you can say that you natter. And, if you chat with your best friend on the phone in a lighthearted way, you also natter. Natter comes from the northern England dialect gnatter, "chatter," and also "grumble." Earlier, it meant, "nibble away." WORD FAMILYnatter: nattered, nattering, natters USAGE EXAMPLESIt tasted pretty good, though while chewing on the meat the diner may get mental flashes of quivering whiskers and nattering orange teeth. The Guardian(Nov 18, 2016) She will badger me about our “problems,” talk about IVF, and natter on about adoption even as we ask for her to drop the subject. Slate(Nov 10, 2016) A couple of days later, Johnson is at his cluttered desk in downtown LA, nattering merrily in Japanese to a woman in Tokyo. The Guardian(Oct 09, 2016) v talk socially without exchanging too much information Syn|Hypo|Hyper chaffer, chat, chatter, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, claver, confab, confabulate, gossip, jaw, shoot the breeze, visit jawbone, schmoose, schmooze, shmoose, shmooze talk idly or casually and in a friendly way converse, discourse carry on a conversation |
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