prattle as a noun: - 1
as a verb: - 1
prattle
noun
1 prattle
Idle or foolish and irrelevant talk.
synonyms: blether, chin music, idle talk, prate.
Roget 582:
speech,
faculty of speech;
locution,
talk,
parlance,
verbal intercourse,
prolation†,
oral communication,
word of mouth,
parole,
palaver,
prattle;
effusion.
oration,
recitation,
delivery,
say,
speech,
lecture,
harangue,
sermon,
tirade,
formal speech,
peroration;
speechifying;
soliloquy
etc.
589;
allocution
etc.
586;
conversation
etc.
588;
salutatory : screed: valedictory [U.S.].
oratory;
elocution,
eloquence;
rhetoric,
declamation;
grandiloquence,
multiloquence†;
burst of eloquence;
facundity†;
flow of words,
command of words,
command of language;
copia verborum [Lat.];
power of speech,
gift of the gab;
usus loquendi [Lat.].
speaker
etc.
v.;
spokesman;
prolocutor,
interlocutor;
mouthpiece,
Hermes;
orator,
oratrix†,
oratress†;
Demosthenes,
Cicero;
rhetorician;
stump orator,
platform orator;
speechmaker,
patterer†,
improvisatore†.
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Roget 584:
loquacity,
loquaciousness;
talkativeness
etc.
adj.;
garrulity;
multiloquence†,
much speaking.
jaw;
gabble;
jabber,
chatter;
prate,
prattle,
cackle,
clack;
twaddle,
twattle,
rattle;
caquet†,
caquetterie [Fr.];
blabber,
bavardage†,
bibble-babble†,
gibble-gabble†;
small talk
etc.
(converse)
588.
fluency,
flippancy,
volubility,
flowing,
tongue;
flow of words;
flux de bouche [Fr.],
flux de mots [Fr.];
copia verborum [Lat.],
cacoethes loquendi [Lat.];
furor loquendi [Lat.];
verbosity
etc.
(diffuseness)
573;
gift of the gab
etc.
(eloquence)
582.
talker;
chatterer,
chatterbox;
babbler
etc.
v.;
rattle;
ranter;
sermonizer,
proser†,
driveler;
blatherskite [U.S.];
gossip
etc.
(converse)
588;
magpie,
jay,
parrot,
poll,
Babel;
moulin a paroles [Fr.].
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verb
1 prattle
Speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly.
synonyms: blab, blabber, chatter, clack, gabble, gibber, maunder, palaver, piffle, prate, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle ... show more.
Roget 584:
be loquacious
etc.
adj.;
talk glibly,
pour forth,
patter;
prate,
palaver,
prose,
chatter,
prattle,
clack,
jabber,
jaw;
blather,
blatter†,
blether†;
rattle,
rattle on;
twaddle,
twattle;
babble,
gabble;
outtalk;
talk oneself out of breath,
talk oneself hoarse;
expatiate
etc.
(speak at length)
573;
gossip
etc.
(converse)
588;
din in the ears
etc.
(repeat)
104;
talk at random,
talk nonsense
etc.
497;
be hoarse with talking.
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Dutch: ratelen, fantaseren
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