Prattle
['præt(ə)l] or ['prætl]
Definition
(v. i.) To talk much and idly; to prate; hence, to talk lightly and artlessly, like a child; to utter child's talk.
(v. t.) To utter as prattle; to babble; as, to prattle treason.
(n.) Trifling or childish tattle; empty talk; loquacity on trivial subjects; prate; babble.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. Prate, chatter.
n. Prate, chatter.
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Definition
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.
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Examples
- I like their prattle; it does me good. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I am not fond of the prattle of children, he continued; for, old bachelor as I am, I have no pleasant associations connected with their lisp. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- O no, not at all, she said, returning to the boy's prattle. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Tis very nonsense of an old man to prattle so when life and death's in mangling. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Miss Crawley allowed Briggs to prattle on without interrupting her too much. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Jessy, with her little piquant face, engaging prattle, and winning ways, is made to be a pet, and her father's pet she accordingly is. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- And so the pair went on prattling, as in quite early days. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Then, among the advancing echoes, there was the tread of her tiny feet and the sound of her prattling words. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- The mated pairs were prattling away quite happily, and Dobbin knew he was as clean forgotten as if he had never existed in this world. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- If there ever were a pair of twins in danger of being utterly spoiled by adoration, it was these prattling Brookes. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- They talked and prattled at random, he always as if he were well, just the same as when he was going about. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The absent lord's children meanwhile prattled and grew on quite unconscious that the doom was over them too. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- She heard that we were bound for Greece, that she would see her father, and now, for the first time, she prattled of him to her mother. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- To seize upon me the very day after Mrs. Bute was gone, the old lady prattled on; it was too indecent. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- A bubbling spring prattles over stones on one side, and a plantation of a few elms and beeches, hardly deserve, and yet continue the name of wood. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
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