Define the word prattle"Prattle" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"
Prattle \Prat"tle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Prattled; p. pr. & vb.
n. Prattling.] [Freq. of prate.]
To talk much and idly; to prate; hence, to talk lightly and
artlessly, like a child; to utter child's talk.
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"Prattle" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"
Prattle \Prat"tle\, v. t.
To utter as prattle; to babble; as, to prattle treason.
--Addison.
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"Prattle" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"
Prattle \Prat"tle\, n.
Trifling or childish tattle; empty talk; loquacity on trivial
subjects; prate; babble.
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Mere prattle, without practice. --Shak.
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"prattle" wn "WordNet (r) 2.0"
prattle
n : idle or foolish and irrelevant talk [syn: prate, idle talk, blether, chin music]
v : speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
[syn: chatter, piffle, palaver, prate, tittle-tattle,
twaddle, clack, maunder, blab, gibber, tattle,
blabber, gabble]
"prattle" moby-thes "Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0"
152 Moby Thesaurus words for "prattle":
absurdity, accents, amphigory, babble, babblement, babbling,
balderdash, bavardage, be closeted with, bibble-babble, blab,
blabber, blah-blah, blather, blathering, blether, blethers,
blither, bombast, bull, bullshit, bunk, bunkum, cackle, caquet,
caqueterie, chat, chatter, chattering, chitter-chatter, clack,
claptrap, clatter, comment, conversation, coze, crap, discourse,
dither, double-talk, drivel, drool, elocution, fiddle-faddle,
fiddledeedee, flapdoodle, flummery, folderol, foolishness, fudge,
fustian, gab, gabber, gabble, gabbling, galimatias, gam, gammon,
garbage, gas, gibber, gibbering, gibberish, gibble-gabble, go on,
gobbledygook, going on, gossip, guff, gush, haver, hocus-pocus,
hogwash, hooey, hot air, humbug, idle talk, jabber, jabbering,
jabberwocky, jargon, jaw, jawing, language, make conversation,
maunder, maundering, mere talk, moonshine, mumbo jumbo,
mumbo-jumbo, narrishkeit, natter, niaiserie, nonsense,
nonsense talk, oral communication, pack of nonsense, palaver,
palavering, parole, patter, piffle, poppycock, pour forth, prate,
prating, prittle-prattle, ramble on, rant, rapping, rattle,
rattle on, reel off, rigamarole, rigmarole, rodomontade, rot,
rubbish, run on, skimble-skamble, speaking, speech, spout,
spout off, stuff and nonsense, stultiloquence, swill, talk,
talk away, talk nonsense, talk on, talkee-talkee, talking, tattle,
tete-a-tete, tittle-tattle, trash, trumpery, twaddle, twattle,
twiddle-twaddle, twitter, vapor, vaporing, visit, waffle, waffling,
words, yak, yakkety-yak, yakking
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