About The Word Prate

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Prate

Prate Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Prate?
[n] idle or foolish and irrelevant talk
[v] speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly Synonyms | Synonyms for Prate: blab | blabber | blether | chatter | chin music | clack | gabble | gibber | idle talk | maunder | palaver | piffle | prattle | prattle | tattle | tittle-tattle | twaddle Related Terms | Find terms related to Prate: absurdity | amphigory | babble | babblement | balderdash | bavardage | bibble-babble | blab | blabber | blah-blah | blather | blether | blethers | blow | bombast | brag | bull | bullshit | cackle | caquet | caqueterie | chat | chatter | chitter-chatter | clack | claptrap | clatter | cock-a-doodle-doo | crow | dither | double-talk | drivel | drool | fiddledeedee | fiddle-faddle | flummery | folderol | fudge | fustian | gab | gabble | galimatias | gammon | gas | gasconade | gibber | gibberish | gibble-gabble | go on | gobbledygook | gossip | guff | gush | haver | hocus-pocus | hot air | humbug | idle talk | jabber | jargon | jaw | mere talk | mouth | mumbo jumbo | narrishkeit | natter | niaiserie | nonsense | nonsense talk | pack of nonsense | palaver | patter | piffle | pour forth | prating | prattle | prittle-prattle | puff | ramble on | rant | rattle | rattle on | reel off | rigamarole | rigmarole | rodomontade | rubbish | run on | skimble-skamble | spout | spout off | stuff and nonsense | stultiloquence | talk away | talk nonsense | talk on | talkee-talkee | tittle-tattle | trash | trumpery | twaddle | twattle | twiddle-twaddle | vapor | vaporing | vaunt | waffle | waffling | yak | yakkety-yak See Also | babble | blather | blether | blither | cackle | chatter | mouth | smatter | speak | talk | utter | verbalise | verbalize | yack | yak | yakety-yak Prate In Webster's Dictionary \Prate\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Prated}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Prating}.] [Akin to LG. & D. praten, Dan. prate, Sw. & Icel.
prata.]
To talk much and to little purpose; to be loquacious; to
speak foolishly; to babble.
To prate and talk for life and honor. --Shak.
And make a fool presume to prate of love. --Dryden.
\Prate\, v. t. To utter foolishly; to speak without reason or purpose; to chatter, or babble. What nonsense would the fool, thy master, prate, When thou, his knave, canst talk at such a rate ! --Dryden. \Prate\, n. [Akin to LG. & D. praat, Sw. prat.] Talk to little purpose; trifling talk; unmeaning loquacity. Sick of tops, and poetry, and prate. --Pope. |
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