Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Petulant; ill-natured; crabbed.
  • noun A plantation where nuts are grown; a copse where nuts grow.

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Examples

  • Herewith are a few of the best titles l absorbed during that research. l never miss an opportunity to help my readers discover that older books were written in an era before all intellectuals were afflicted with lifelong insecurity caused by cringing from an imaginary critical and nattery college professor standing over their shoulder.

    Organic Gardener's Composting Steve Solomon

  • There's always been the little nattery nuggins things about the Cult of Obama that's rubbed me the wrong way.

    Velociworld 2008

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