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Meaning of nattery | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B1

Definitions

  1. talkative; chatty
    informal
  2. peevish

Examples

“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.”
“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.”
“A “nattery party,” was an officers' meeting or conference during which there was far too much talking that usually resulted in little action.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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