Crossword clues for prattle
prattle
- Chefs' instructions to serve up classic cuisine, ultimately, in empty restaurants
- Chatter inconsequentially
- Start to play with child's toy and chatter inanely
- Spin prime minister's endless talk
- The buttocks let out hot air
- Chew the fat
- Foolish talk
- Go on
- Talk nonsense
- Talk foolishly
- Idle talk
- Trifling talk
- Spout nonsense
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Prattle \Prat"tle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Prattled; p. pr. & vb. n. Prattling.] [Freq. of prate.] To talk much and idly; to prate; hence, to talk lightly and artlessly, like a child; to utter child's talk.
Prattle \Prat"tle\, v. t.
To utter as prattle; to babble; as, to prattle treason.
--Addison.
Prattle \Prat"tle\, n. Trifling or childish tattle; empty talk; loquacity on trivial subjects; prate; babble.
Mere prattle, without practice.
--Shak.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1530s, frequentative of prate (q.v.). Related: Prattled; prattling. The noun is attested from 1550s.
Wiktionary
n. Silly, childish, talk; babble. vb. (context ambitransitive English) To speak incessantly and in a childish manner; to babble.
WordNet
n. idle or foolish and irrelevant talk [syn: prate, idle talk, blether, chin music]
Usage examples of "prattle".
It was pretty much what the microphone had been picking up from the start: the inconsequential prattle of a couple in the privacy of their own apartment, as apposed to intelligence secrets, which SNIPER collected at the university or his government offices.
Threading the briery dell, and following the brook that prattled down the steep slope, I climbed the hill which directly overhangs the hamlet.
They merely prattled together over the secrets of their matronhood, and, though they sometimes laughed coarsely, meant no harm.
No, there would be prattling of night demons who begat him, and the same aversion Merlin had met himself in days past.
The home of his boyhood, the rushing of the Rhone, a seat in a shady nook of the garden, Madeline, his sister, prattling beside him, and his mother singing somewhere about the house--it all came back and went over him and through him, making his heart sink strangely, while another voice, the sweetest ever heard--but she was ineffable and her memory a forbidden fragrance.
Steinem never had children and now goes around prattling about how unhappy her life has been.
Nan, tall, slender, and handsome, her silver hair bound simply at her nape, was prattling about how worried she had been when she had learned of the unfortunate accident.
Vulcans always so long-winded, she wondered as Sorren prattled on, or had her patience worn as thin as her aging skin?
Little else mattered to Taris, but Vedoc kept prattling on about the station.
It was written in French and confused everyone else, but Freda prattled away, iTurbot poche en sauce fenouil, epinards, pommes frites.
I was beginning to think she was an evil robot, programmed to prattle on about purses until her frosty-pink lip gloss dried up.
She was in the gayest of spirits, and prattled merrily about her purchases and her arrangements, wondering from time to time when Raffles Haw would come.
If I prattled away with some of my trilling nonsense, she would stare at me, and in her anxiety not to be thought stupid, she would laugh out of season.
If it had not been for the uneasiness of the poor captain, which at last struck us, we should never have put a stop either to the dinner or to, our charming prattle.
Ursula and Gudrun, both very unused, were mostly silent, listening to the slow, rhapsodic sing-song of Hermione, or the verbal sallies of Sir Joshua, or the prattle of Fraulein, or the responses of the other two women.