What's the difference between natter and ratter?

Natter


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To find fault; to be peevish.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Meanwhile the stars of a series that attracted more than 9 million viewers for its finale last year are gathering in a walled English garden for a cup of tea and a natter.
  • (2) 5.30pm GMT Tottenham's striker hunt ... Spurs continue to serenade Damiao but they have others irons in the fire too: word is they're nattering with Lyon about Lisandro Lopes.
  • (3) She still attends the Newquay “knit and natter” group, which makes bedsocks for the town’s hospital.
  • (4) A group of four ladies who come every year sit nattering away in the corner.
  • (5) Many who regularly post on the messageboard applaud the generous support they have received from other mothers whom they have never met in person: in this respect it resembles not so much a parenting manual as a virtual version of a mother's coffee-morning or a natter over the fence of old.
  • (6) Many of these are suits from the surrounding business district, diluted with beer lovers and those who relish that rarity: a simple, unpretentious city pub, where you can settle in and natter the night away.
  • (7) The air smells clean and salty, families natter about everything and nothing, lapdogs snap, an earnest student sketches another earnest student, young lovers gently snog and strangers strike up friendships.
  • (8) They sew, but they also knit (at Knit and Natter), and cycle (with Radiant Riders), and taste beer (Swig for Victory).
  • (9) "Standing there pulling pints and having a natter is easy!
  • (10) Clocks should be seen to be stopped for goal celebrations, substitutions, natters before set-pieces, rolling around and whenever the ball goes out of play.
  • (11) There’s also brown long-eared, natterers, pipistrelles,” he said.
  • (12) With a cultivated accent as thick as Mersey fog, she has giggled her way through six years of plain food and a good natter.
  • (13) Should it go ahead, Blakenall library – and its Knit and Natter group – would be no more.
  • (14) "Then one day, overhearing me ask the shopkeeper if my crochet magazine had arrived, a total stranger suggested I come to the Knit and Natter group meeting in Biddulph library on Wednesday afternoon … It seems an exaggerated claim, I know, but the ensuing visit to the library has made such a radical change to my life.
  • (15) Specimens of 5 species of cestodes were collected in 6 specimens of the freshwater stingray species Potamotrygon motoro (Natterer), collected in the vicinity of Corumba, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil.
  • (16) If you have any thoughts on the above maybe you should join me for the knit and natter session between 2pm and 4pm on Saturday at Eastside Projects.
  • (17) Why does the government only listen to the anti-smokers who obviously natter and natter about it?
  • (18) Over here, by contrast, a purported 90-minute match is padded out by players trundling over to take throw-ins or nattering about free-kicks and so on.
  • (19) I've witnessed receptions ignoring the phone to have a natter while at the surgery.
  • (20) We’re here once a week at our Knit and Natter, we’re here for our over-50s clubs and we have people come in for talks.

Ratter


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, rats, as one who deserts his party.
  • (n.) Anything which catches rats; esp., a dog trained to catch rats; a rat terrier. See Terrier.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I rather like Bryant – a "little wire-haired ratter", according to Daphne – who becomes increasingly bombastic as the book proceeds.