Prattle
verb
To talk in a silly or mindless way.
Tom prattled on about his new video game the entire afternoon.
Often appears as...
- prattle on
- prattle about
noun
Meaningless or foolish talk.
Sarah was tired of listening to her coworker's prattle about his cats.
Often appears as...
- endless prattle
- senseless prattle
verb
To talk in a silly or mindless way.
Tom prattled on about his new video game the entire afternoon.
Often appears as...
- prattle on
- prattle about
noun
Meaningless or foolish talk.
Sarah was tired of listening to her coworker's prattle about his cats.
Often appears as...
- endless prattle
- senseless prattle
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Informality
Prattle, when used as a verb, is informal and implies trivial content of speech.
He prattled on, unaware that nobody was interested.
Pro Tip 2/3Conversational Context
Use 'prattle on' to describe someone speaking at length without substance, often annoyingly.
My uncle always prattles on about the good old days.
Pro Tip 3/3Subjectivity
Prattling can be a matter of opinion, what seems silly to one could be significant to another.
She dismissed their concerns as prattling, though they felt quite serious about them.
Pro Tip 1/3Informality
Prattle, when used as a verb, is informal and implies trivial content of speech.
He prattled on, unaware that nobody was interested.
Pro Tip 2/3Conversational Context
Use 'prattle on' to describe someone speaking at length without substance, often annoyingly.
My uncle always prattles on about the good old days.
Pro Tip 3/3Subjectivity
Prattling can be a matter of opinion, what seems silly to one could be significant to another.
She dismissed their concerns as prattling, though they felt quite serious about them.
Pro Tip 1/3Informality
Prattle, when used as a verb, is informal and implies trivial content of speech.
He prattled on, unaware that nobody was interested.
Pro Tip 2/3Conversational Context
Use 'prattle on' to describe someone speaking at length without substance, often annoyingly.
My uncle always prattles on about the good old days.
Pro Tip 3/3Subjectivity
Prattling can be a matter of opinion, what seems silly to one could be significant to another.
She dismissed their concerns as prattling, though they felt quite serious about them.
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Video examples
The wicked wit of Jane...
As her guests prattle on and on about nothing, the reader begins to agree– Emma is the only exciting character in this quiet neighborhood. Yet despite her swelling ego, Emma may not be as in control as she thinks – in life or love.
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Africa’s rhyming history...
graduate student graduate school seminar with a great historian and the best teacher I ever had who in the first session allowed us first-year students to prattle on and on and on about how the pass holes of a mirror to our own
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The price of shame PIPE...
has hung like the sword of Damocles over my head. I mean, who can remember what they said a year ago? Scared and mortified, I listen, listen as I prattle on about the flotsam and jetsam of the day;
Video examples
The wicked wit of Jane...
As her guests prattle on and on about nothing, the reader begins to agree– Emma is the only exciting character in this quiet neighborhood. Yet despite her swelling ego, Emma may not be as in control as she thinks – in life or love.
Video examples
Africa’s rhyming history...
graduate student graduate school seminar with a great historian and the best teacher I ever had who in the first session allowed us first-year students to prattle on and on and on about how the pass holes of a mirror to our own
Video examples
The price of shame PIPE...
has hung like the sword of Damocles over my head. I mean, who can remember what they said a year ago? Scared and mortified, I listen, listen as I prattle on about the flotsam and jetsam of the day;
Example 1 of 3
Quote examples
Abraham Lincoln
American President
Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap - let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice.
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Heywood Broun
American Journalist
Every now and then, we hear parents commenting on the fearful things which motion pictures may do to the minds of children. They seem to think that a little child is full of sweetness and of light. We had the same notion until we had a chance to listen intently to the prattle of a three-year-old.
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Richard Quest
English Journalist
Any idiot can throw together a program or report and shove it out, but to get the balance and to get the skill set, that is what they pay us for. They don't pay us to prattle on the television; anybody can do that.
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John Adams
American President
As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children.
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W. Somerset Maugham
British Playwright
Considering how foolishly people act and how pleasantly they prattle, perhaps it would be better for the world if they talked more and did less.
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Michael J. Knowles
American Author
Criminal justice reformers prattle on about 'over-incarceration' in America when in fact our nation suffers from an under-incarceration problem.
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Rachel Sklar
Canadian Lawyer
What bothered me most about chick lit, frankly, was how the term was used to dismiss a huge chunk of the bookstore as silly, girlish prattle.
Quote examples
Abraham Lincoln
American President
Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap - let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice.
Quote examples
Heywood Broun
American Journalist
Every now and then, we hear parents commenting on the fearful things which motion pictures may do to the minds of children. They seem to think that a little child is full of sweetness and of light. We had the same notion until we had a chance to listen intently to the prattle of a three-year-old.
Quote examples
Richard Quest
English Journalist
Any idiot can throw together a program or report and shove it out, but to get the balance and to get the skill set, that is what they pay us for. They don't pay us to prattle on the television; anybody can do that.
Quote examples
John Adams
American President
As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children.
Quote examples
W. Somerset Maugham
British Playwright
Considering how foolishly people act and how pleasantly they prattle, perhaps it would be better for the world if they talked more and did less.
Quote examples
Michael J. Knowles
American Author
Criminal justice reformers prattle on about 'over-incarceration' in America when in fact our nation suffers from an under-incarceration problem.
Quote examples
Rachel Sklar
Canadian Lawyer
What bothered me most about chick lit, frankly, was how the term was used to dismiss a huge chunk of the bookstore as silly, girlish prattle.
Example 1 of 7
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