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Prattle Common

Prattle has 4 different meanings across 2 categories:

Noun · Verb

Definitions
Noun
1

idle or foolish and irrelevant talk

2

Silly, childish talk; babble.

Verb
1

speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly

2

To speak incessantly and in an inconsequential or childish manner; to babble.

Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
yak talk
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
babble

Origin

The word prattle comes from the early modern English verb prate, which means to talk foolishly or at length. It originally included a suffix indicating repeated action, similar to related words in Dutch that mean to mutter.

Rhyming Words
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