different between natter vs netter

English

Etymology

From a Northern England dialectal variant of gnatter (also knatter) ("to chatter, grumble; nibble away at"). Cognate with German Low German gnattern (“to mumble, grumble, be grouchy”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?næt?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?næt?/
• Rhymes: -æt?(?)
• Hyphenation: nat?ter

Verb

natter (third-person singular simple present natters, present participle nattering, simple past and past participle nattered)

1. (colloquial) To talk casually; to discuss unimportant matters.

2. (Scotland) To nag.

Derived terms

• nattersome

Translations

Noun

natter (plural natters)

1. (colloquial) Mindless and irrelevant chatter.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:chatter

Anagrams

• Arnett, attern, ratten, tarten, treant

Dutch

Pronunciation

Adjective

natter

1. Comparative form of nat

Anagrams

• ratten, tarten

French

Etymology

natte +? -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /na.te/

Verb

natter

1. to plait; to braid

Conjugation

Derived terms

• dénatter

Further reading

• “natter” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• entrât, ratent, râtent, rentât, tarent

English

Etymology

From Middle English netter, nettare, equivalent to net +? -er.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?n?t?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?n?t?(?)/, /-??(?)/
• Rhymes: -?t?, -?t?(?)
• Hyphenation: net?ter

Noun

netter (plural netters)

1. One who nets (in any sense), or who uses a net.
   • 1891, Samuel Wilmot, “Salmon Fisheries of the Bay des Chaleurs”, in Part II of Supplement No. 1 to the Annual Report of the Department of Fisheries 1890, Brown Chamberlin (publisher), page 30:

     In England and in Scotland, after centuries of experience, the netter has been so restricted in the use of the destructive engines which were formerly in use there that at the present time many of the more important rivers continue to uphold almost their original standard of fish,—thus actually benefiting the tidal fisherman, the rivers' proprietors, and all concerned.

   • 2004, Cristiana S. Seixas and Fikret Berkes, “Stakeholder Conflicts and Solutions across Political Scales: the Ibiraquera Lagoon, Brazil”, chapter eight of Leontine E. Visser (editor), Challenging Coasts: Transdisciplinary Excursions into Integrated Coastal Zone Development, Amsterdam University Press, ?ISBN, page 190:

     The conflict between gill-netters and cast-netters has existed at least since the 1940s. The conflict is about resource allocation since gill-netters, who are only a few in number, capture much more resources with less human effort than the large majority of fishers who use cast nets.

2. An Internet user.
   • 2005, David T. Hill, Krishna Sen, The Internet in Indonesia's new democracy (page 61)

     The vast majority of Indonesian netters use landlines, either from home or office, or from a public Internet access point.

Anagrams

• retent, tenter

German

Pronunciation

Adjective

netter

1. comparative degree of nett

Adjective

netter

1. inflection of nett:
   1. strong/mixed nominative masculine singular
   2. strong genitive/dative feminine singular
   3. strong genitive plural

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

netter f or m

1. indefinite plural of natt

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

netter f

1. indefinite plural of natt