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Definition: Natter |
NatterVerb1. Chew the fat; shoot the breeze. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Etymology: Natter \Nat"ter\, intransitive verb. [Compare to Icelandic knetta to grumble.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: NatterSynonyms: chaffer (v), chat (v), chatter (v), chitchat (v), claver (v), confab (v), confabulate (v), gossip (v), jaw (v), visit (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Natter |
| Non-English Usage: "Natter" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (braid, plait, queue, strand, twine, wreathe), German (adder, asp, asps, serpent, snake, viper). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Die Schwarze Natter (1913) | |
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| "Natter" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 68.75% of the time. "Natter" is used about 32 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 68.75% | 22 | 74,468 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 18.75% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 12.5% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 32 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "natter" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Natter | Last name | 200 | 39,756 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
natter | 12 |
349 ba natter | 4 |
bachem natter | 3 |
admiral natter | 2 |
349 ba bachem natter | 2 |
natter plane rocket | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "natter"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | shfryj (blast, blow, bluster, decompress, frown, grumble, huff, inveigh, leak, let off steam, puff, vituperate, whiffle, wreak). (various references) | |
Arabic | ثرثر (babble, blab, blabber, bluster, chatter, clack, clatter, crack, gabble, gas, gibber, give oneself airs, gossip, jabber, jangle, jaw, palaver, patter, prate, prattle, quack, rap, rumble, shoot one's mouth off, smatter, talk, tattle, twaddle, twitter, yap). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | мърморя си, мърморене (groan, growl, grumble, murmur, mutter, muttering, rumble, rumbling, rumblings), лаф, бърборя (babble, cank, gab, jabber, prate, prattle, rattle, tattle), празни приказки (babble, eyewash, flim-flam, froth, fudge, gas, jazz, palaver, patter, piffle, talk, tittle tattle, twaddle, wind, yack), приказвам (jaw, prattle, shoot, speak, talk). (various references) | |
Czech | reptat (grouch, grouse, grumble, murmur, mutter), kus řeèi, klábosit (chat, chatter, gossip, jaw, jazz, talk), klábosení (chatter, chitchat, gossip, jaw), hubovat (berate, rail, rate, upbraid), breptat (stutter), žvanit (babble, blab, burble, cackle, gabble, gas, palaver, pettifog, piffle, prate, prattle, rattle, spout, talk, tattle, tittle tattle, twaddle, waffle, yap). (various references) | |
French | causerie, causer, bavarder. (various references) | |
German | schwatzen (babble, babbling, blab, blather, cackle, chat, chatter, drool, gab, gabbings, go on, gossip, jabber, jabber away, patter, prattle, talk, talk away, to blab, to chatter, to twaddle, twaddle, visit), schwatz (chat, chinwag, jaw), schwätzen (babble, blather, cackle, chatter, drool, gab, go on, gossip, jabber, jabber away, prate, prattle, talk, talk away, to twaddle, twaddle, visit), schnattern (cackle, chatter, gabble, gaggle, gibber, quack, to cackle, to chatter, to gabble, to gaggle, yackety-yak, yak), quatschen (blather, chatter, gab, gabble, jaw, piffle, squeal, yap), quasseln (babble, blather, blether, gab, gabble, jabber, jabber away, jaw, rabbit on, rattle on, yackety-yak, yak), klönen (to chat). (various references) | |
Greek | γκρινιάζω (carp, croak, gripe, grouch, grouse, growl, grumble, murmur, yammer). (various references) | |
Hungarian | zsémbel (scold, to grouch, to grumble, to moan, to natter), locsog (blab, gabble, piffle, tittle tattle, to blatter, to chirp, to clack, to gab, to gabble, to jangle, to palaver, to patter, to piffle, to quack, to talk frivolities, to yak on), fecseg (blab, blah blah, chat, chatter, dote, gab, jabber, jangle, Maunder, piffle, prate, talk, to babble, to blab, to blab out, to blat, to blatter, to cackle, to clack, to clatter, to gabble, to jabber, to jangle, to palaver, to patter, to piffle, to prattle, to quack, to rabbit, to ramble, to rant, to talk frivolities, to twaddle, to vapour, to witter, to yak, to yak it up). (various references) | |
Italian | fare quattro chiacchiere, ciarlare (blab, blather, chatter, tattle), chiacchierata (chat, chitchat, gabfest, talk), chiacchierare (blab, chat, chatter, gossip, prate, rap, talk, tattle, twaddle, visit), chiacchiera (babble, gab, gossip, tattle, waffle). (various references) | |
Manx | tutleraght (gossiping, nattering, slander, tale-bearing, talkativeness, tittle-tattle). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | atternay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | sódio (sodium), lamentar-se (complain, croon, groan, plain, repine, the mopes, ululate, wail), falar tolamente (gas). (various references) | |
Romanian | trãncãni (Bab, babble, cackle, clack, clash, clatter, cosher, gab, gibber, gossip, jabber, jangle, Maunder, palaver, prate, prattle, rattle, talk, tattle, yap). (various references) | |
Russian | ворчать (croak, grouse, growl, grumble, grunt, nag, snarl). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | svađati se (altercate, brawl, dispute, fall out, quarrel, spat), džapati se. (various references) | |
Spanish | quejarse (address a complaint, beef, bellyache, bitch, carry on, complain, crab, gripe, groan, grouse, grumble, kick, moan, murmur, niggle, quarrel, repine, sound off, squeal, take on, wail, whimper, yammer, yap), parlotear (babble, cackle, chatter, gab, gabble, gas, prate, prattle, tattle, waffle, yap), machacar (breaking, carry on, crush, grind, harp on, peg away, pound, pound away, pulverize, scutching, slash, stomp), hablar mucho (talk, talk away), charlar (chat, chatter, chin, gab, gas, gossip, jaw, prate, prattle, shoot the bull, talk, visit, yap), charla (babble, causerie, chat, chatter, chitchat, clack, derision, gab, gabble, gossip, prate, rattle, small talk, talk, tattle, tittletattle, yap). (various references) | |
Swedish | muttra (mumble, mutter). (various references) | |
Turkish | gevezelik etmek (babble, blab, cackle, chat, chatter, clack, gabble, gossip, prate, prattle, tattle). (various references) | |
Ukranian | скаржитися (beef, belch, complain, grumble, pine, wail, yammer), скиглити (whine, yelp), тріпатися, обговорювати (air, bandy about, canvass, confer, consider, debate, dispute, moot, parley, reason, ventilate), бурчати (beef, begrudge, buzz, carp, croak, groan, grouch, growl, grunt, mutter, nag, rumble, scold), базікати (babble, blab, blather, burble, cackle, chatter, chin, clatter, expatiate, footle, gab, gabble, gossip, haver, jabber, parleyvoo, piffle, prate, spiel, tattle, tittle tattle, twitter, waffle, wag, wiggle-waggle, yak, yak-yak, yarn). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "natter": nattered, nattering, natters. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "natter" (pronounced na"ter) |
| 3 | -a" t er | attar, batter, Blatter, chatter, clatter, fatter, flatter, hatter, latter, matter, patter, platter, scatter, shatter, smatter, spatter, splatter, Tatar, tatter. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: ratten. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-n-r-t-t" | |
-1 letter: antre, tater, tetra, treat. | |
-2 letters: ante, earn, etna, near, neat, nett, rant, rate, rent, tare, tarn, tart, tate, tear, teat, tent, tern, tret. | |
-3 letters: ane, ant, are, art, ate, att, ear, eat, era, ern, eta, nae, net, ran, rat, ret, tae, tan, tar, tat, tea, ten, tet. | |
-4 letters: ae, an, ar, at, en, er, et, na, ne, re, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-n-r-t-t" | |
+1 letter: entrant, entreat, intreat, iterant, natters, nattier, nitrate, pattern, ratteen, rattens, reptant, taunter, ternate, tertian. | |
+2 letters: alterant, anteater, antevert, attainer, attender, attorned, attorney, battener, betatron, earthnut, entrants, entreats, entreaty, fattener, gnattier, interact, intranet, intreats, martinet, nattered, nitrated, nitrates, patentor, patterns, ratteens, rattened, rattener, reactant, reattain, retirant, slattern, straiten, tarletan, tartness, taunters, tenantry, tertians, tetragon, threaten, tolerant, transect, transept, trapnest, trawlnet, treating, triptane, truanted, truncate. | |
+3 letters: advertent, alterants, alternate, anorthite, anteaters, anteverts, apartment, argentite, arrestant, attainder, attainers, attenders, attorneys, batteners, battering, betatrons, carnotite, certainty, crepitant, deratting, detonator, earthnuts, entertain, entreated, entrechat, fatteners, flattener, fortunate, instanter, integrate, interacts, intimater, intranets, intreated, intricate, iterating, iteration, itinerant, itinerate, letterman, martinets, maternity, mattering, natrolite, nattering, nontarget, northeast, orientate, outlearnt, patentors, paternity, patienter, pattering, patterned, penetrant, penetrate, protonate, ratteners, rattening, rattooned, reactants, reattains, recontact, reductant, reentrant, reinstate, reluctant, repattern, repentant, resistant, restating, restraint, resultant, retardant, retasting, retirants, revertant, slatterns, stationer, sterilant, straitens, strangest, targeting, tarletans, tattering, tearstain, teratogen, termagant, terminate, ternately, tervalent, tetragons, threatens, threating, transects, transepts, transfect, transient, transited, translate, transmute, trapnests, trawlnets, treatment, tremulant, trenchant, trepidant, tribunate, triptanes, trivalent, truncated, truncates, turbinate, turntable, untreated, utterance, yattering. | |
+4 letters: adulterant, alteration, alternated, alternates, alternator, anorthites, antemortem, anteverted, anthracite, antierotic, antihunter, antilitter, antimarket, antimatter, antinature, antistress, antistrike, antitrades, apartments, aquatinter, arctangent, argentites, arrestants, arrestment, assortment, astringent, attainders, attenuator, attornment, bannerette, blattering, brattiness, cantatrice, carnotites, centralest, centralist, centrality, certainest, chattering, clattering, contracted, contrasted, counteract, denaturant, department, detonators, detracting, detraction, downstater, entertains, entrapment, entreaties, entreating, entrechats, eructating, eructation, estreating, exenterate, exorbitant, extenuator, extracting, extraction, fenestrate, flatteners, flattering, fraternity, impartment, infiltrate, ingratiate, integrated, integrates, integrator, intenerate, interacted, intercaste, interfaith, intergraft, interparty, interplant, interstage, interstate, intertidal, intertrial, intimaters, intolerant, intraplate, intrastate, intreating, inveterate, iterations, itinerants, itinerated, itinerates, laundrette, literation, marionette, martensite, menstruate, metacenter, monetarist, natrolites, negotiator, neutralist, neutrality, nonstarter, northeasts, orientated, orientates, pargetting, parturient, patterning, penetrants, penetrated, penetrates, pentameter, portamenti, portamento, precontact, pretasting, protectant, protestant, protonated, protonates, quaternity, ratcheting, reattained, recitation, recontacts, reductants, reentrants, refutation, registrant, reinitiate, reinstated, reinstates, remittance, repatterns, reputation, resistants, restarting, restaurant, restraints, resultants, retardants, retracting, retraction, retransmit, retreatant, retreating, revertants, sandlotter, scattergun, scattering, shattering, slatternly, smattering, spattering, stationers, stationery, stentorian, stepparent, sterilants, straighten, straitened, straitness, tanistries, tantalizer, tarantases, tarantella, tarantulae, tartnesses, tearstains, technocrat, tenantries, tentacular, teratogens, termagants, terminated, terminates, terminator, terneplate, tetracaine, tetragonal, tetrazzini, thorianite, threatened, threatener, tolerantly, tolerating, toleration, torrential, tournament, trabeation, trajecting, trajection, tramontane, transacted, transected, transeptal, transfects, transients, transitive, translated, translates, transmuted, transmutes, transudate, trapnested, travertine, treatments, tribunates, tripinnate, tristearin, trochanter, truantries, tryptamine, turbinated, turbinates, turntables, understate, unsaturate, utterances, ventilator, waterfront, wentletrap. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 61 74 74 65 72 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-. .- - - . .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01100001 01110100 01110100 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N a t t e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 0061 0074 0074 0065 0072 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)486786867184 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Usage Frequency 7. Names: Frequency 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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