natterverb [ I ]
uk/ˈnæt.ər/us/ˈnæt̬.ɚ/UK informalto talk continuously for a long time without any particular purpose:
Once he starts nattering you just can't stop him.
My mother and her friends natter away on the phone all evening.
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Informal talking & conversation
- a problem shared is a problem halved idiom
- bants
- blarney
- chatter
- chew
- confab
- conversation-stopper
- converse
- exchange
- gas
- jaw
- make yourself understood idiom
- orally
- pass
- pillow talk
- shoot the breeze idiom
- shoptalk
- talk shop idiom
- understand
- wash your dirty linen in public idiom
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natter
noun [ C ] ukus
We had a long natter over coffee.