prattle

• POS: Noun, Verb (intransitive), Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: prat=tle

CIDE DICTIONARY

prattle, v. i. [Freq. of prate.].

 To talk much and idly; to prate; hence, to talk lightly and artlessly, like a child; to utter child's talk.  [1913 Webster]

prattle, v. t. 

 To utter as prattle; to babble; as, to prattle treason.  Addison.  [1913 Webster]

prattle, n. 

 Trifling or childish tattle; empty talk; loquacity on trivial subjects; prate; babble.  [1913 Webster]
"Mere prattle, without practice."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

prattle, v. & n.
--v.intr. & tr. chatter or say in a childish way.
--n.
1 childish chatter.
2 inconsequential talk.

Derivative

prattler n. prattling adj.

Etymology

MLG pratelen (as PRATE)

THESAURUS

prattle

absurdity, accents, amphigory, babble, babblement, babbling, balderdash, bavardage, be closeted with, bibble-babble, blab, blabber, blah-blah, blather, blathering, blether, blethers, blither, bombast, bull, bullshit, bunk, bunkum, cackle, caquet, caqueterie, chat, chatter, chattering, chitter-chatter, clack, claptrap, clatter, comment, conversation, coze, crap, discourse, dither, double-talk, drivel, drool, elocution, fiddle-faddle, fiddledeedee, flapdoodle, flummery, folderol, foolishness, fudge, fustian, gab, gabber, gabble, gabbling, galimatias, gam, gammon, garbage, gas, gibber, gibbering, gibberish, gibble-gabble, go on, gobbledygook, going on, gossip, guff, gush, haver, hocus-pocus, hogwash, hooey, hot air, humbug, idle talk, jabber, jabbering, jabberwocky, jargon, jaw, jawing, language, make conversation, maunder, maundering, mere talk, moonshine, mumbo jumbo, mumbo-jumbo, narrishkeit, natter, niaiserie, nonsense, nonsense talk, oral communication, pack of nonsense, palaver, palavering, parole, patter, piffle, poppycock, pour forth, prate, prating, prittle-prattle, ramble on, rant, rapping, rattle, rattle on, reel off, rigamarole, rigmarole, rodomontade, rot, rubbish, run on, skimble-skamble, speaking, speech, spout, spout off, stuff and nonsense, stultiloquence, swill, talk, talk away, talk nonsense, talk on, talkee-talkee, talking, tattle, tete-a-tete, tittle-tattle, trash, trumpery, twaddle, twattle, twiddle-twaddle, twitter, vapor, vaporing, visit, waffle, waffling, words, yak, yakkety-yak, yakking

ROGET THESAURUS

prattle

Speech

N 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, allocution, conversation, salutatory : screed: valedictory, oratory, elocution, eloquence, rhetoric, declamation, grandiloquence, multiloquence, burst of eloquence, facundity, flow of words, command of words, command of language, copia verborum, power of speech, gift of the gab, usus loquendi, speaker, spokesman, prolocutor, interlocutor, mouthpiece, Hermes, orator, oratrix, oratress, Demosthenes, Cicero, rhetorician, stump orator, platform orator, speechmaker, patterer, improvisatore, speaking, spoken, oral, lingual, phonetic, not written, unwritten, outspoken, eloquent, elocutionary, oratorical, rhetorical, declamatory, grandiloquent, talkative, Ciceronian, nuncupative, Tullian, orally, by word of mouth, viva voce, from the lips of, quoth he, said he, action is eloquence, pour the full tide of eloquence along, she speaks poignards and every word stabs, speech is but broken light upon the depth of the u, to try thy eloquence now 'tis time.

Loquacity

N loquacity, loquaciousness, talkativeness, garrulity, multiloquence, much speaking, jaw, gabble, jabber, chatter, prate, prattle, cackle, clack, twaddle, twattle, rattle, caquet, caquetterie, blabber, bavardage, bibble-babble, gibble-gabble, small talk, fluency, flippancy, volubility, flowing, tongue, flow of words, flux de bouche, flux de mots, copia verborum, cacoethes loquendi, furor loquendi, verbosity, gift of the gab, talker, chatterer, chatterbox, babbler, rattle, ranter, sermonizer, proser, driveler, blatherskite, gossip, magpie, jay, parrot, poll, Babel, moulin a paroles, loquacious, talkative, garrulous, linguacious, multiloquous, largiloquent, chattering, chatty, declamatory, open-mouthed, fluent, voluble, glib, flippant, long tongued, long winded, trippingly on the tongue, glibly, off the reel, the tongue running fast, the tongue running loose, the tongue running on wheels, all talk and no cider, foul whisperings are abroad, what a spendthrift is he of his tongue!.

VB be loquacious, 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, gossip, din in the ears, talk at random, talk nonsense, be hoarse with talking.