Today’s Words That Work: Nattering

By Early To Rise | Mon, Sep 6, 2010 |

  

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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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