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UK
/pɹˈætəl/
]
[ US /ˈpɹætəɫ/ ]
[ US /ˈpɹætəɫ/ ]
NOUN
- idle or foolish and irrelevant talk
VERB
- speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
How To Use prattle In A Sentence
- Order now before today's pussified, PADI-preaching prattlers warp you into taking "living reef eco-tours" when, instead, you could be going 30 fathoms deep and power-heading jewfish between the eyes. Hell Divers' Rodeo
- She wanted to prattle about Archie, but I wasn't having any. THE TARTAN RINGERS
- I can't afford to bear the deep feeling is the burden, sweet prattle just happened to cash lies.
- Lou prattled on about various trivialities till I wanted to scream.
- But her aunt's intimations, coupled with the cheerful prattle of her French governess, Elise, had fired Anna's imagination. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
- The report prattles on gormlessly: ‘We cannot build our way out of the problems we face on our road networks.’
- Without their help my prattle would never have been heard.
- He has passed sentence of condemnation upon Lycidas, and has taken occasion, from that charming poem, to expose and ridicule (what is indeed ridiculous enough) the childish prattlement of pastoral compositions, as if Lycidas was the prototype and pattern of them all. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IV (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland II
- She'd have prattled on about her new job for the whole afternoon if I'd let her.
- She prattled the secret to the stranger.