prattle

• WordNet 3.6
  • v prattle speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
  • n prattle idle or foolish and irrelevant talk
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• • v. i Prattle To talk much and idly; to prate; hence, to talk lightly and artlessly, like a child; to utter child's talk.
  • v. t Prattle To utter as prattle; to babble; as, to prattle treason.
  • n Prattle Trifling or childish tattle; empty talk; loquacity on trivial subjects; prate; babble. "Mere prattle , without practice."
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• • prattle To talk artlessly and childishly; talk freely and idly, like a child; chatter; be loquacious; prate.
  • prattle To force or effect by talking; bring or lead by prattling.
  • prattle To utter in a babbling or childish manner.
  • n prattle Artless or childish talk; hence, puerile loquacity; twaddle.
  • n prattle Synonyms Prattle, Prating, Chat, Chatter, Babble, Tattle, Gossip, Gabble, Palaver, Twaddle, Gibberish, Jargon, Balderdash, Rigmarole. Prattle is generally harmless, if not pleasant, as the prattle of a child, or of a simple-minded person; prating now generally suggests the idea of boasting or talking above one's knowledge; chat is easy conversation upon light and agreeable subjects, as social chat beside an open fire; chatter is incessant or abundant talk, seeming rather foolish and sounding pretty much alike; babble or babbling is talk that is foolish to inaneness, as that of the drunkard (Prov. xxiii. 29); tattle is talk upon subjects that are petty, and especially such as breed scandal; gossip is the small talk of the neighborhood, especially upon personal matters, perhaps dealing with scandal; gabble is a contemptuous word, putting the talk upon the level of the sounds made by geese; palaver implies that the talk is either longer than is necessary, or wordy, or meant to deceive by flattery and plausibility; twaddle is mere silliness in talk; gibberish is mere sounds strung together without sense; jargon is talk that is unintelligible by the mingling of sounds or by the lack of meaning; balderdash is noisy nonsense; rigmarole is talk that has the form of sense, but is really incoherent, confused, or nonsensical.
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• • v.i Prattle prat′l to talk much and idly: to utter child's talk
  • v.t Prattle to talk about in a prattling way
  • n Prattle empty talk
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• Ralph Waldo Emerson

  

  “Infancy conforms to nobody: all conform to it, so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle and play to it.”
• Epictetus

  

  “Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?”

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