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Definition of prattle in English: prattleverb ˈprat(ə)lˈprædl [no object]Talk at length in a foolish or inconsequential way. 闲扯，胡扯 she began to prattle on about her visit to the dentist 她开始闲扯她看牙医时的情景。 Example sentencesExamples - You probably think that I've just been prattling away aimlessly on these pages for the past three and a half years, immune to the vagaries of the wonderful world of weblogs.
- It's been said that you don't know what hell is until you've had an insurance salesman in your living room, prattling on eternally about term life annuities.
- I went back to her, held her hand and prattled away for a little while.
- Their companions nodded sagely in agreement as they prattled on.
- For ages I've been prattling on about telephony being just an application that lives on a mobile data-linked device, and that everyone's too hung up on the concept of ‘a phone’.
- She is still powerful, prattling and perfectly potty but there is something missing.
- I just nodded politely while she prattled on until the vet called us in.
- I don't want it to be diluted by prattling around with this kind of nonsense!
- Successive governments have prattled on at length about the importance of this for our economy and for our businesses.
- He was being falsely modest afterward, prattling on about how there was an element of good fortune to it, but that's a nonsense.
- I spent the first part of the session prattling on about this week's dramas.
- I won't even delve into the confusion between solitude and the ‘modern malaise’ of feeling lonely, which I've prattled on about before.
- Nobody prattled about dormitory suburbs, or objected to people drinking on the footpath outside the pubs.
- Everyone keeps on prattling on about how deep it was.
- I understand if you don't want an annoying chatterbox prattling away in your ear while you eat.
- In the real world, if you're prattling about stuff people don't want to talk about, you'll annoy them.
- After she'd finished prattling away, I succinctly, and rather puzzled said, ‘Uh… what?’
- The report prattles on gormlessly: ‘We cannot build our way out of the problems we face on our road networks.’
- The automatic writing prattled on like this at length, interrupted by neither full stop nor comma and driven by a rhyme scheme that might politely be described as random but which did not seem especially Japanese in origin.
- There was a man prattling in French to a woman at the next table.
Synonyms chatter, babble, prate, blather, blether, ramble, gabble, jabber, twitter, go on, run on, rattle on/away, blither, maunder, drivel, patter, gossip, tittle-tattle, tattle, yap, jibber-jabber, cackle Scottish & Irish slabber informal chit-chat, jaw, gas, gab, blabber, yak, yackety-yak, yabber, yatter, shoot one's mouth off British informal witter, rabbit, chunter, natter, waffle North American informal run off at the mouth Australian/New Zealand informal mag archaic twaddle, clack, twattle
noun ˈprat(ə)lˈprædl mass nounFoolish or inconsequential talk. 闲扯，胡扯 do you intend to keep up this childish prattle? 你还想继续这种幼稚可笑的闲扯吗？ Example sentencesExamples - If we find few to communicate with, maybe we shall be pleased to find in our grandchildren a docile generation willing to lend an ear to our prattle.
- Yes, for only four easy payments of $39.95 you'll receive an album of audio cassettes with hours and hours of what at first seems babbling prattle, but on closer inspection is much, much more.
- Such prattle demonstrates an inability and indeed an unwillingness to contemplate the affects of combat on the victor as well as the vanquished.
- Hollywood activists have such an inflated sense of their own importance they think any hindrance of their own prattle is the equivalent of censorship or cracking down on dissent.
- And a number of people have thought that the debate has shifted to tax but in fact that has only been elite prattle.
- After about half an hour of incessant prattle, an elderly man rose shakily from his seat and, with all his strength, slammed shut the door leading to vestibule.
- Now, you can't hold him responsible for the random prattle of his sibling…
- It's been awhile since I've seen this much ignorant prattle spouted about the Pope, and that's saying something.
- I have to say it has been bliss not being subject to his constant prattle, and I have taken a certain sadistic pleasure in seeing him squirm when he is forced to talk to me when I assign him unpleasant work tasks.
- What does he really mean when uttering such ahistoric prattle?
- Of course, the subjective part to all this was the abundant prattle about the ‘end of ideology’.
- But that is as much to do with her Yorkshire upbringing as long months spent puncturing parliamentary prattle.
- Remember, I don't write all my inane prattle here for personal or financial benefit, but merely to try and lighten the dark corners of your souls, and edify your weary minds.
- He was right to seek the solitary company of lizards rather than prattle around the camp fire with his fellow ‘contestants’.
- It goes along with prattle about ‘good corporate citizenship’, and the notion that particular corporations, like banks, have reputations which are determined by some kind of popularity polls.
- We can now expect a deluge of such laughable assertions - not only from leading lights of the Republican and Democratic parties but also from a remarkable number of journalists who feel compelled to echo that kind of prattle.
- Ultimately, since the audience knows precisely where the story is going, and the road to that point is nothing more than scene upon scene of tedious relationship prattle, this show just never gets going.
- Without their help my prattle would never have been heard.
- Witness the Swedish academy's citation, which told us that the seventy-five-year-old playwright ‘uncovers the precipice under everyday prattle and forces entry into oppression's closed rooms’.
- He listened gracefully to my enthusiastic amateur prattle as we left.
Synonyms chatter, babble, talk, prating, blather, blether, rambling, gabble, jabber, drivel, palaver, tattle informal gab, yak, yackety-yak, yabbering, yatter, twaddle British informal wittering, waffle, waffling, natter, chuntering archaic clack, twattle
Derivativesnoun ˈprat(ə)ləˈprædlər In a millisecond, they segue back from a real person with envy and memories and a life before this one into the more comfortable persona of corporate prattler. Example sentencesExamples - One can only hope that the new administration and a new generation of prattlers develop a realistic and holistic goal orientated approach to the burning local demands of today and yesterday.
- What the peace prattlers want is a patched up peace, which would mean armed neutrality, with huge standing armies in every country in Europe, and render vain all the sacrifices we have made.
- Some boring prattlers were the champions of the shows.
- I've seen passengers come close to blows with those pretentious prattlers.
OriginMid 16th century: from Middle Low German pratelen, from praten (see prate). Rhymesbattle, cattle, chattel, embattle, rattle, Seattle, tattle Definition of prattle in US English: prattleverbˈpradlˈprædl [no object]Talk at length in a foolish or inconsequential way. 闲扯，胡扯 she began to prattle on about her visit to the dentist 她开始闲扯她看牙医时的情景。 Example sentencesExamples - She is still powerful, prattling and perfectly potty but there is something missing.
- Their companions nodded sagely in agreement as they prattled on.
- I just nodded politely while she prattled on until the vet called us in.
- It's been said that you don't know what hell is until you've had an insurance salesman in your living room, prattling on eternally about term life annuities.
- In the real world, if you're prattling about stuff people don't want to talk about, you'll annoy them.
- I won't even delve into the confusion between solitude and the ‘modern malaise’ of feeling lonely, which I've prattled on about before.
- Successive governments have prattled on at length about the importance of this for our economy and for our businesses.
- I went back to her, held her hand and prattled away for a little while.
- After she'd finished prattling away, I succinctly, and rather puzzled said, ‘Uh… what?’
- I don't want it to be diluted by prattling around with this kind of nonsense!
- Nobody prattled about dormitory suburbs, or objected to people drinking on the footpath outside the pubs.
- I understand if you don't want an annoying chatterbox prattling away in your ear while you eat.
- I spent the first part of the session prattling on about this week's dramas.
- He was being falsely modest afterward, prattling on about how there was an element of good fortune to it, but that's a nonsense.
- For ages I've been prattling on about telephony being just an application that lives on a mobile data-linked device, and that everyone's too hung up on the concept of ‘a phone’.
- Everyone keeps on prattling on about how deep it was.
- The report prattles on gormlessly: ‘We cannot build our way out of the problems we face on our road networks.’
- The automatic writing prattled on like this at length, interrupted by neither full stop nor comma and driven by a rhyme scheme that might politely be described as random but which did not seem especially Japanese in origin.
- There was a man prattling in French to a woman at the next table.
- You probably think that I've just been prattling away aimlessly on these pages for the past three and a half years, immune to the vagaries of the wonderful world of weblogs.
Synonyms chatter, babble, prate, blather, blether, ramble, gabble, jabber, twitter, go on, run on, rattle away, rattle on, blither, maunder, drivel, patter, gossip, tittle-tattle, tattle, yap, jibber-jabber, cackle
nounˈpradlˈprædl Foolish or inconsequential talk. 闲扯，胡扯 do you intend to keep up this childish prattle? 你还想继续这种幼稚可笑的闲扯吗？ Example sentencesExamples - Ultimately, since the audience knows precisely where the story is going, and the road to that point is nothing more than scene upon scene of tedious relationship prattle, this show just never gets going.
- Of course, the subjective part to all this was the abundant prattle about the ‘end of ideology’.
- If we find few to communicate with, maybe we shall be pleased to find in our grandchildren a docile generation willing to lend an ear to our prattle.
- And a number of people have thought that the debate has shifted to tax but in fact that has only been elite prattle.
- But that is as much to do with her Yorkshire upbringing as long months spent puncturing parliamentary prattle.
- I have to say it has been bliss not being subject to his constant prattle, and I have taken a certain sadistic pleasure in seeing him squirm when he is forced to talk to me when I assign him unpleasant work tasks.
- Remember, I don't write all my inane prattle here for personal or financial benefit, but merely to try and lighten the dark corners of your souls, and edify your weary minds.
- He listened gracefully to my enthusiastic amateur prattle as we left.
- We can now expect a deluge of such laughable assertions - not only from leading lights of the Republican and Democratic parties but also from a remarkable number of journalists who feel compelled to echo that kind of prattle.
- Such prattle demonstrates an inability and indeed an unwillingness to contemplate the affects of combat on the victor as well as the vanquished.
- Now, you can't hold him responsible for the random prattle of his sibling…
- Yes, for only four easy payments of $39.95 you'll receive an album of audio cassettes with hours and hours of what at first seems babbling prattle, but on closer inspection is much, much more.
- Without their help my prattle would never have been heard.
- It goes along with prattle about ‘good corporate citizenship’, and the notion that particular corporations, like banks, have reputations which are determined by some kind of popularity polls.
- It's been awhile since I've seen this much ignorant prattle spouted about the Pope, and that's saying something.
- What does he really mean when uttering such ahistoric prattle?
- He was right to seek the solitary company of lizards rather than prattle around the camp fire with his fellow ‘contestants’.
- Witness the Swedish academy's citation, which told us that the seventy-five-year-old playwright ‘uncovers the precipice under everyday prattle and forces entry into oppression's closed rooms’.
- Hollywood activists have such an inflated sense of their own importance they think any hindrance of their own prattle is the equivalent of censorship or cracking down on dissent.
- After about half an hour of incessant prattle, an elderly man rose shakily from his seat and, with all his strength, slammed shut the door leading to vestibule.
Synonyms chatter, babble, talk, prating, blather, blether, rambling, gabble, jabber, drivel, palaver, tattle
OriginMid 16th century: from Middle Low German pratelen, from praten (see prate). |