natter

1. 1.

   talk socially without exchanging too much information

   “the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze”

   Synonymschew the fatshoot the breezechatconfabulateconfabchitchatchit-chatchatterchaffergossipjawclavervisit

   Broaderconverse

   Narrowershmooze

Other forms of natter

past tense

natterred·

present participle

natterring·

third person

natters·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about natter

What does natter mean?

natter means "talk socially without exchanging too much information".

How many syllables are in natter?

natter has 2 syllables: nat-ter. The stress falls on "nat". In IPA it is /ˈnætɚ/.

What is another word for natter?

Close synonyms include chew the fat, shoot the breeze, chat, confabulate, confab. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is natter a common word?

natter is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.