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Definitions for prattle
ˈpræt lprat·tle

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. prate, prattle, idle talk, blether, chin musicverb

    idle or foolish and irrelevant talk

  2. chatter, piffle, palaver, prate, tittle-tattle, twaddle, clack, maunder, prattle, blab, gibber, tattle, blabber, gabbleverb

    speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly

Wiktionary

  1. prattlenoun

    Silly, childish, talk; babble.

  2. prattleverb

    to talk incessantly and in a childish manner; to babble.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

ChatGPT

  1. prattle

    Prattle refers to talking at length in a foolish or inconsequential way. It can also refer to speech or noise that is meaningless, inconsequential, or tedious.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Prattleverb

    to talk much and idly; to prate; hence, to talk lightly and artlessly, like a child; to utter child's talk

  2. Prattleverb

    to utter as prattle; to babble; as, to prattle treason

  3. Prattlenoun

    trifling or childish tattle; empty talk; loquacity on trivial subjects; prate; babble

  4. Etymology: [Freq. of prate.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. 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.]

Anagrams for prattle »

  1. partlet

  2. platter

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of prattle in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of prattle in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of prattle in a Sentence

  1. William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night , Act I scene ii:

    What the great ones do, the less will prattle of

  2. Homer:

    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.

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