"natter" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈnætɚ/ [General-American], /ˈnætə/ [Received-Pronunciation] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-natter.wav [Southern-England] Forms: natters [plural]
Rhymes: -ætə(ɹ) Etymology: 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”). Etymology templates: {{m|en|gnatter}} gnatter, {{m|en|knatter}} knatter, {{gloss|"to chatter, grumble; nibble away at"}} ("to chatter, grumble; nibble away at"), {{onomatopoeic|en|title=imitative}} imitative, {{cog|nds-de|gnattern|t=to mumble, grumble, be grouchy}} German Low German gnattern (“to mumble, grumble, be grouchy”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} natter (plural natters)
  1. (colloquial) Mindless and irrelevant chatter. Tags: colloquial Categories (topical): Talking
    Sense id: en-natter-en-noun-QMJE~KOi Disambiguation of Talking: 41 32 26 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 12 42 46

Verb

IPA: /ˈnætɚ/ [General-American], /ˈnætə/ [Received-Pronunciation] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-natter.wav [Southern-England] Forms: natters [present, singular, third-person], nattering [participle, present], nattered [participle, past], nattered [past]
Rhymes: -ætə(ɹ) Etymology: 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”). Etymology templates: {{m|en|gnatter}} gnatter, {{m|en|knatter}} knatter, {{gloss|"to chatter, grumble; nibble away at"}} ("to chatter, grumble; nibble away at"), {{onomatopoeic|en|title=imitative}} imitative, {{cog|nds-de|gnattern|t=to mumble, grumble, be grouchy}} German Low German gnattern (“to mumble, grumble, be grouchy”) Head templates: {{en-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. Tags: colloquial Translations (to talk idly): бърборя (bǎrborja) (Bulgarian), plapre (Danish), pulista (Finnish), jutella (Finnish), bavarder (French), blablater (French), papoter (French), garriō (Latin), tagarelar (Portuguese), болта́ть (boltátʹ) [neuter] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-natter-en-verb-TSFowtUx Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 12 42 46 Disambiguation of 'to talk idly': 94 6
  2. (Scotland) To nag. Tags: Scotland
    Sense id: en-natter-en-verb-tC8MuYV7 Categories (other): Scottish English, English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English onomatopoeias Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 12 42 46 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 22 26 52 Disambiguation of English onomatopoeias: 27 32 41
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: nattersome

Inflected forms

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