nattery

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English

Etymology

From natter +‎ -y.

Adjective

nattery (comparative more nattery, superlative most nattery)

  1. (informal) talkative; chatty
    • 2006, Mary McGrory, Phil Gailey, The Best of Mary McGrory: A Half-Century of Washington Commentary:
      She was a maddening person from whom you would flee if you met her in real life: a nattery, chattery, high-strung, high-flown bundle of pretensions with a lot of Ancient Mariner in her. But on the screen, a delight.
    • 2008, William L. Randall, Elizabeth McKim, Reading Our Lives: The Poetics of Growing Old, page 37:
      Some people can indeed do much of their narrating in a nattery manner, verbalizing whatever pops into their heads in the same basic disorder. Chatterboxes, we call them: motor-mouths.
    • 2013, Gordon L. Rottmann, SNAFU Situation Normal All F***ed Up:
      A “nattery party,” was an officers' meeting or conference during which there was far too much talking that usually resulted in little action.
  2. peevish