Prattlement

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    prattle; childish chatter uncountable, usually

    "April 1805, Francis Jeffrey, "The Lay of the Last Minstrel", in Edinburgh Review she had never listened to the prattlement of the river and mountain spirits"

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"April 1805, Francis Jeffrey, "The Lay of the Last Minstrel", in Edinburgh Review she had never listened to the prattlement of the river and mountain spirits"

Etymology

From prattle + -ment.

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