prattle
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prattle
- /ˈpɹætəl/
Rhymes with -ætəl
Where it comes from
From prate + -le (early modern English frequentative suffix). Compare Dutch pruttelen and Dutch preutelen (“to mutter”).
verb prattles · prattling · prattled
- To speak incessantly and in an inconsequential or childish manner; to babble. And as E. Rushmore Coglan prattled of this little planet I thought with glee of a great almost-cosmopolite who wrote for the whole world and dedicated himself to Bombay.
noun
- Silly, childish talk; babble. Mere prattle without practice is all his soldiership.
