6 letters · 6 points in Scrabble
verb talk socially without exchanging too much information
originFrom a Northern England dialectal variant of gnatter (also knatter) ("to chatter, grumble; nibble away at"), ultimately of imitative origin. Cognate with German Low German gnattern (“to mumble, grumble, be grouchy”).
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