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Prattle

Prattle Meaning & Definition
Prattle Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Prattle?

[n] idle or foolish and irrelevant talk
[v] speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly

Synonyms | Synonyms for Prattle: blab | blabber | blether | chatter | chin music | clack | gabble | gibber | idle talk | maunder | palaver | piffle | prate | prate | tattle | tittle-tattle | twaddle

Related Terms | Find terms related to 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 | fiddledeedee | fiddle-faddle | 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

See Also | babble | blather | blether | blither | cackle | chatter | mouth | smatter | speak | talk | utter | verbalise | verbalize | yack | yak | yakety-yak

Prattle In Webster's Dictionary

\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.
\Prat"tle\, v. t. To utter as prattle; to babble; as, to prattle treason. --Addison.
\Prat"tle\, n. Trifling or childish tattle; empty talk; loquacity on trivial subjects; prate; babble. Mere prattle, without practice. --Shak.

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