Meaning of PRATE
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- [n] idle or foolish and irrelevant talk
- [v] speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
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| | Synonyms: | | blab, blabber, blether, chatter, chin music, clack, gabble, gibber, idle talk, maunder, palaver, piffle, prattle, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle |
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| | See Also: | | babble, blather, blether, blither, cackle, chatter, mouth, smatter, speak, talk, utter, verbalise, verbalize, yack, yak, yakety-yak | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Prate\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Prated}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Prating}.] [Akin to LG. & D. praten, Dan. prate, Sw. & Icel.
prata.]
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.
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. [Akin to LG. & D. praat, Sw. prat.]
Talk to little purpose; trifling talk; unmeaning loquacity.
Sick of tops, and poetry, and prate. --Pope.
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