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  • verb Present participle of natter.
  • noun Idle chatter.

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Examples

  • There will be some nattering from the GOP about using the reconciliation tactic, but that just proves the depth of their hypocrisy; they were all in favor of it when they were the majority.

    Reconcile This 2009

  • Whenever a Liberal has an objection to a conservative, their nattering is deemed "Asking the hard questions."

    Leahy on Sotomayor: 'Stop the racial politics' 2009

  • I realize I have just been kind of nattering on this week and the one time I wasn't that turned out real well; but this weekend I promise to try and do some real entries.

    shaken & stirred Gwenda 2002

  • I realize I have just been kind of nattering on this week and the one time I wasn't that turned out real well; but this weekend I promise to try and do some real entries.

    Archive 2002-11-01 Gwenda 2002

  • After he was thrown from public office for tax fraud, extortion and bribery, we never heard much more from Agnew, and his most enduring legacy was to imprint "nattering," "nabob" and

    Boise Weekly 2010

  • It is demeaning, snickering, and the kind of nattering nabobbing of negatisism that shows those running the Republican talking points show here are truly not putting love of country above winning the election at all costs.

    California Progress Report 2008

  • The alien nattering becomes a distraction instead of a way into the pile of jargon.

    The Stuff of Life » Comics Worth Reading 2009

  • President Obama has once again shown that he has way more class than either Sgt. Crowley or any of the nattering nabobs criticizing him.

    Obama speaks with Gates' arresting officer 2009

  • All I hear is the 'nattering nabobs of negativity'.

    Republicans react to jobless report 2009

  • I think I should be grateful I wasn't nattering on about my fish that day.

    Day in the Life of an Idiot lyda222 2009

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