Today’s Words That Work: Nattering
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To natter (NAT-er) — from an early English dialect variant of “chatter” — is to talk idly and at great length, usually about unimportant things.
Example (as used by David Denby in The New Yorker): “The appeal of [Elizabeth Gilbert's book Eat, Pray, Love] lies in Gilbert’s nattering voice.”
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