Meaning of prate in English
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Pronunciation
/preɪt/US accent
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prateEtymology
late Middle English: from Middle Dutch, Middle Low German praten, probably of imitative originDefinitions
1. speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantlyDerived terms
- babbler
- balderdash
- baloney
- betrayer
- bilgewater
- blabber
- blether
- boloney
- bosh
- cackle
- causerie
- chatter
- chatterbox
- chatterer
- chin-wag
- chin-wagging
- chin music
- chitchat
- drool
- empty talk
- empty words
- fiddle-faddle
- gab
- gabble
- gabfest
- gossip
- hot air
- humbug
- idle talk
- informer
- jabber
- jabbering
- magpie
- palaver
- piffle
- prater
- prattle
- prattler
- rat
- rhetoric
- small talk
- spouter
- squealer
- taradiddle
- tarradiddle
- tittle-tattle
- tommyrot
- tosh
- twaddle
- twaddler
- yack
- yak
- yakety-yak
Noun
prateDefinitions
1. idle or foolish and irrelevant talkDerived terms
Famous quotes
- « But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings. » Franklin D. Roosevelt