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[syn: chew the fat, shoot the breeze, chat, confabulate, confab, chitchat, chit-chat, chatter, chaffer, natter, gossip, jaw, claver, visit]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Natter \Nat"ter\, v. i. [Cf. Icel. knetta to grumble.]
1. To find fault; to be peevish. [Prov. Eng. or Scot.]
[1913 Webster]
2. To talk constantly; to chatter incessantly to prattle; as,
nattering like a chatterbox.
[PJC]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
natter
v 1: talk socially without exchanging too much information; "the
men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze" [syn:
chew the fat, shoot the breeze, chat, confabulate,
confab, chitchat, chit-chat, chatter, chaffer,
natter, gossip, jaw, claver, visit]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
59 Moby Thesaurus words for "natter":
babble, babblement, bavardage, bibble-babble, blab, blabber,
blah-blah, blather, blether, blethers, cackle, caquet, caqueterie,
chat, chatter, chitter-chatter, clack, clatter, dither, gab,
gabble, gas, gibber, gibble-gabble, go on, gossip, guff, gush,
haver, hot air, idle talk, jabber, jaw, mere talk, nonsense talk,
palaver, patter, pour forth, prate, prating, prattle,
prittle-prattle, ramble on, rattle, rattle on, reel off, run on,
spout, spout off, talk away, talk nonsense, talk on, talkee-talkee,
tittle-tattle, twaddle, twattle, waffle, yak, yakkety-yak