PRATE

prate, prattle, idle talk, blether, chin music

(noun) idle or foolish and irrelevant talk

chatter, piffle, palaver, prate, tittle-tattle, twaddle, clack, maunder, prattle, blab, gibber, tattle, blabber, gabble

(verb) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

prate (countable and uncountable, plural prates)

Talk to little purpose; trifling talk; unmeaningful loquacity.

Verb

prate (third-person singular simple present prates, present participle prating, simple past and past participle prated)

(ambitransitive) To talk much and to little purpose; to be loquacious; to speak foolishly.

Synonyms: blabber, Thesaurus:prattle, Thesaurus:chatter

Anagrams

• Peart, Petra, apert, apter, parte, pater, peart, petar, petra, preta, reapt, repat, retap, taper, trape, treap

Source: Wiktionary


Prate, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Prated; p. pr. & vb. n. Prating.] Etym: [Akin to LG. & D. praten, Dan. prate, Sw. & Icel. prata.]

Definition: To talk much and to little purpose; to be loquacious; to speak foolishly; to babble. To prate and talk for life and honor. Shak. And make a fool presume to prate of love. Dryden.

Prate, v. t.

Definition: To utter foolishly; to speak without reason or purpose; to chatter, or babble. What nonsense would the fool, thy master, prate, When thou, his knave, canst talk at such a rate ! Dryden.

Prate, n. Etym: [Akin to LG. & D. praat, Sw. prat.]

Definition: Talk to little purpose; trifling talk; unmeaning loquacity. Sick of tops, and poetry, and prate. Pope.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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