21 November 2017
prattle
[prat-l]
verb (used without object), prattled, prattling.
1. to talk in a foolish or simple-minded way; chatter; babble.
verb (used with object), prattled, prattling.
2. to utter by chattering or babbling.
noun
3. the act of prattling.
4. chatter; babble:
the prattle of children.
5. a babbling sound:
the prattle of water rushing over stones.
Origin of prattle
Middle Low German
1525-1535; < Middle Low German pratelen to chatter, frequentative of praten to prate; see -le
Related forms
prattler, noun
prattlingly, adverb
Synonyms
1. gab, jabber, gabble, blab.
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Examples from the Web for prattle
Contemporary Examples
Then, since the Battleground states are something about which the Talking Heads like to prattle.
The Prattleground States
Megan McArdle
November 6, 2012
Historical Examples
You know how readily we get into prattle upon a subject dear to our heart: you can excuse it.
The Letters of Robert Burns
Robert Burns
As for all the prattle about pre-Raphaelitism, I confess to you I am weary of it, and long have been.
Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti
T. Hall Caine
The boy had pattered French with the former since he had first begun to prattle at all.
Billy Topsail & Company
Norman Duncan
He listened to people’s talk as though it had been children’s prattle.
Romance
Joseph Conrad and F.M. Hueffer
Her prattle seeped in and he became aware of it and what she was saying.
Life Sentence
James McConnell
His prattle was the prattle of an unsophisticated maiden lady.
The O’Ruddy
Stephen Crane
The prattle of lovers and the sober wisdom of experience blended.
Charles Carleton Coffin
William Elliot Griffis, D. D.
She paid as little heed to my words as a nurse to the prattle of a child.
Dross
Henry Seton Merriman
Mr. Draconmeyer smiled with the air of one listening to a child’s prattle.
Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo
E. Phillips Oppenheim
Anagram
let rapt
pelt art
Today’s quote
Art washes away from the soul, the dust of everyday life.
– Pablo Picasso
On this day
21 November 164BC – Judas Maccabaeus, son of Mattathias of the Hasmonean family, restores the Temple in Jerusalem. This event is commemorated each year by the festival of Hanukkah.
21 November 1694 – birth of François-Marie Arouet, better known as Voltaire. French enlightment writer, historian and philosopher. A man of wit who advocated freedom of religion, freedom of expression and separation of church and state. Voltaire wrote more than 20,000 letters, 2,000 books and pamphlets. He criticised intolerance, religious dogma and social institutions. Died 30 May 1778.
21 November 1936 – birth of Victor Chang, a Chinese-Australian cardiac surgeon who pioneered heart transplants. Chang was shot dead on 4 July 1991, in a failed extortion attempt.
21 November 1965 – birth of Bjork (Björk Guðmundsdóttir), Icelandic singer-songwriter, producer and actress.
21 November 1986 – Oliver North, National Security Council staffer, begins shredding documents associated with the Iran-Contra debacle that could have implicated themselves and others within the Reagan administration in the illegal sale of arms to Iran in order to fund the rebel Nicaraguan Contras.