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Natter

Definition: Natter

Natter

Verb

1. 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: Natter

Synonyms: chaffer (v), chat (v), chatter (v), chitchat (v), claver (v), confab (v), confabulate (v), gossip (v), jaw (v), visit (v). (additional references)

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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).

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Modern Usage: Natter

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Die Schwarze Natter (1913)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Natter

DomainTitle

Books

  • Bachem Ba 349 Natter (reference)

  • Natter, ein Imperium : Roman (reference)

  • Raketen, die den Krieg entscheiden sollten : Taifun, Natter, Kirschkern (V 1), Rheinbote (V 3), Fhn (V 4) u.a (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Natter

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)68.75%2274,468
Lexical Verb (infinitive)18.75%6143,867
Lexical Verb (base form)12.5%4175,879
                    Total100.00%32N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Natter

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.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
NatterLast name20039,756
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Natter

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
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.

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Modern Translations: Natter

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.

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Derivations: Natter

Derivations

Words beginning with "natter": nattered, nattering, natters. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Natter"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "natter" (pronounced na"ter)
3-a" t erattar, 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.

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Anagrams: Natter

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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.

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Alternative Orthography: Natter


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4E 61 74 74 65 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.    .-    -    -    .    .-.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001110 01100001 01110100 01110100 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#78 &#97 &#116 &#116 &#101 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004E 0061 0074 0074 0065 0072

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

486786867184

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INDEX

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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