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Prattle

//ˈpɹætəl// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Silly, childish talk; babble. uncountable

    "Mere prattle without practice is all his soldiership."

  2. 2
    idle or foolish and irrelevant talk wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To speak incessantly and in an inconsequential or childish manner; to babble. ambitransitive

    "And as E. Rushmore Coglan prattled of this little planet I thought with glee of a great almost-cosmopolite who wrote for the whole world and dedicated himself to Bombay."

  2. 2
    speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From prate + -le (early modern English frequentative suffix). Compare Dutch pruttelen and Dutch preutelen (“to mutter”).

Etymology 2

From prate + -le (early modern English frequentative suffix). Compare Dutch pruttelen and Dutch preutelen (“to mutter”).

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