Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Peevish; querulous; impatient.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
natter .
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Examples
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My cousin nattered through my cottage door, How will I placate the Doge?
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As she said of herself, she believed she grew more "nattered" as she grew older; but that she was conscious of her "natteredness" was
Ruth Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837
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Tim Pawlenty nattered on about something, but even he didn't take an opportunity to ask for patience on Afghanistan.
Republicans Return to Reality Peggy Noonan 2011
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Yesterday I nattered about some frustrations in how libraries, especially mine, shelve their comics collections.
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The television voices nattered on about Middle East peace talks, of a terrorism suspect captured, of the latest results from a television game show.
Rogue Oracle 2011
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Tim Pawlenty nattered on about something, but even he didn't take an opportunity to ask for patience on Afghanistan.
Republicans Return to Reality Peggy Noonan 2011
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I mean, we've nattered a bit, but we've never met and chances are we never will.
Please read this karenmiller 2009
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Yesterday I nattered about some frustrations in how libraries, especially mine, shelve their comics collections.
Archive 2009-02-01 2009
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So we publicly nattered and yammered at each other for a while, both of us enjoying it immensely, I suspect, and had the occasional b/c chat about more personal matters.
Archive 2009-08-01 2009
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The television voices nattered on about Middle East peace talks, of a terrorism suspect captured, of the latest results from a television game show.
Rogue Oracle 2011
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