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Definitions for prattle
ˈpræt lprat·tle
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Princeton's WordNet
prate, prattle, idle talk, blether, chin musicverb
idle or foolish and irrelevant talk
chatter, piffle, palaver, prate, tittle-tattle, twaddle, clack, maunder, prattle, blab, gibber, tattle, blabber, gabbleverb
speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
Wiktionary
prattlenoun
Silly, childish, talk; babble.
prattleverb
to talk incessantly and in a childish manner; to babble.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Prattlenoun
Empty talk; trifling loquacity.
Etymology: from the verb.
In a theatre the eyes of men,
After a well-grac’d actor leaves the stage,
Are idly bent on him that enters next,
Thinking his prattle to be tedious. William Shakespeare, Rich. II.The bookish theorick,
Wherein the toged consuls can propose
As masterly as he; mere prattle, without practice,
Is all his soldiership. William Shakespeare, Othello.The insignificant prattle and endless garrulity of the philosophy of the schools. Joseph Glanvill.
To PRATTLEverb
To talk lightly; to chatter; to be trivially loquacious.
Etymology: diminutive of prate.
But I prattle
Something too wildly, and my father’s precepts
I therein do forget. William Shakespeare, Tempest.What the great ones do, the less will prattle of. William Shakespeare.
A French woman teaches an English girl to speak and read French, by only prattling to her. John Locke.
There is not so much pleasure to have a child prattle agreeably, as to reason well. John Locke, on Education.
His tongue, his prattling tongue, had chang’d him quite
To sooty blackness, from the purest white. Joseph Addison, Ovid.A little lively rustick, trained up in ignorance and prejudice, will prattle treason a whole evening. Addison.
I must prattle on,
And beg your pardon, yet this half hour. Matthew Prior.Let cred’lous boys and prattling nurses tell,
How if the festival of Paul be clear,
Plenty from lib’ral horn shall strow the year. John Gay.
Webster Dictionary
Prattleverb
to talk much and idly; to prate; hence, to talk lightly and artlessly, like a child; to utter child's talk
Prattleverb
to utter as prattle; to babble; as, to prattle treason
Prattlenoun
trifling or childish tattle; empty talk; loquacity on trivial subjects; prate; babble
Etymology: [Freq. of prate.]
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Prattle
prat′l, v.i. to talk much and idly: to utter child's talk.—v.t. to talk about in a prattling way.—n. empty talk.—ns. Pratt′lebox, a prattler; Pratt′lement, prattle; Pratt′ler, one who prattles: a child. [Freq. of prate.]
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partlet
platter
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of prattle in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of prattle in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2
Examples of prattle in a Sentence
He lives not long who battles with the immortals, nor do his children prattle about his knees when he has come back from battle and the dread fray.
William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night , Act I scene ii:
What the great ones do, the less will prattle of
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