natterer
noun (British informal)

- a person who engages in prolonged idle chatter or gossip

- one who talks or chatters incessantly

Wiktionary, Merriam-Webster

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WORD ORIGIN 

The word “natterer” derives from the verb “natter”, with the suffix ”-er” added to indicate a person who performs the action.

“Natter”, meaning to chatter aimlessly, gossip, or sometimes grumble, was first recorded in 1829 in northern English dialects. It likely evolved from the earlier dialectal word gnatter, an echoic (onomatopoeic) term mimicking repetitive sounds like chattering teeth, nibbling, or muttering.

“Gnatter” appeared in English around the 18th century, often meaning “to nibble away” or “to make a chattering noise.” The term is thought to stem from Germanic and Scandinavian origins, resembling the Old Norse gnata, meaning to crash or make a noisy impact, and Middle Low German gnat or gnatteren, suggests a rattling or chattering sound.
 In modern German, knattern (to clatter or crackle) shares a similar onomatopoeic quality, reinforcing the idea of repetitive, noisy sounds.

By the 19th century, “natter” shifted from purely imitative sounds (like nibbling or rattling) to describe prolonged, idle human conversation or fussing.

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“Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.” (Plato)



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SYNONYMS


babbler, big mouth, blabber, blabbermouth, blatherer, blether, blitherer, blowhard, broken record, brook that babbles, busy tongue, can talk for England (for hours, under water), can’t keep quiet (stop talking), chatter machine, chatterbox, chatterbug, chatterer, chatty cathy, constant commentary, gabber, gabbler, gasbag, human podcast, human radio, jabberer, jabberjaw, jibber-jabberer, jaw-flapper, jaw-jacker, motor mouth, motormouth, mouth on autopilot, natterbox, NATTERER, never met a silence they couldn’t fill, never shuts up, non-stop talker, one-person podcast, one-person radio, prattlebox, someone who rabbits on, prattler, spouter, talkaholic, talks nineteen to the dozen, talks someone’s ear off, talks the hind leg off a donkey, twaddler, verbal firehose, waffle merchant, waffler, windbag, wordy birdy, yacker, yammerer, yap merchant, yapper, yapster, yatterbox, yatterer

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SMUGGLE
 OWAD into a conversation today, say something like:

“Almost everyone has a NATTERER in their life—be it a friend, a relative, or a colleague.”

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