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Meanings of
prate
in English
Catalan
claca
Spanish
disparate
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Idle or foolish and irrelevant talk.
prattle
blether
idle talk
chin music
Catalan
claca
Portuguese
tagarelar
Catalan
xerrar
Spanish
charlar
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Speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly.
chatter
clack
palaver
tattle
blab
twaddle
gabble
piffle
maunder
gibber
Portuguese
tagarelar
Synonyms
Examples for "
chatter
"
chatter
clack
palaver
tattle
blab
Examples for "
chatter
"
1
The most obvious sign is the increasing
chatter
about a second referendum.
2
A certain amount of preliminary social
chatter
was required at this point.
3
There were hints of it in the social
chatter
of the papers.
4
The
chatter
this year is that it's the best start in decades.
5
Around this industry, large numbers had gathered simply to watch and
chatter
.
1
It made a gratifying
clackety
-
clack
sound every time I took a step.
2
The
lickity
-
clack
of the wheels on the track gobbled up the minutes.
3
And with them new high heels on the sidewalk
clack
,
clack
,
clack
.
4
He heard teeth snapping open and closed, a horrific
clack
,
clack
,
clack
.
5
He slammed the door and Judy heard the bolt
clack
into place.
1
People will not accept free seeds without a certain amount of
palaver
.
2
Spaghetti or any long ribbon pasta, in contrast, is a right
palaver
.
3
Now dey lib for Congo, dey not like the idea of
soldier
-
palaver
.
4
They continued their
palaver
throughout the afternoon and into the early evening.
5
One undeniable thing in this
palaver
is the Russian reputation for glamour.
1
When the meal was over, the children sate together in whispering
tattle
.
2
Is not this better than the indulgence in perpetual trifling and
tattle
?
3
They cabal, and
tattle
,
and hiss, and cackle comminations under their breath.
4
But asking a little girl to
tattle
on her friends seemed monstrous.
5
Social
tattle
and friendly interchange are not the only component, however.
1
One has only to
blab
in his cups and it all collapses.
2
Breanne will
blab
everything to her friends, to people at the party.
3
You let me
blab
about the soft places, about my family's secrets.
4
He would
blab
to my daddy, and I would get a whuppin'.
5
You
blab
to my wife, and I'll be as good as dead.
1
Not that I'm buyin' this technical
twaddle
for one minute, you understand.
2
Whoever, in a respected publishing house, was responsible for such whimsical
twaddle
?
3
They are too sensible to indulge in mere
twaddle
about the weather.
4
We forget the immense amount of
twaddle
that the great epochs produced.
5
The solemn unction with which he pronounced this
twaddle
is beyond description.
1
There followed a tedious debate, a muddy flow of
gabble
and balderdash.
2
Shawn began to
gabble
with amazing speed and in a mighty voice:
3
Abolitionists sneered at all this
gabble
about the sacredness of the Constitution.
4
There was a brave
gabble
of tongues enough when I came in.
5
You were reciting some
gabble
on the steps a little bit ago.
1
I am much obliged for your help, but you are talking
piffle
.
2
Listen: Instead of all this impossible
piffle
,
let's start a real story.
3
One hoarse raucous
piffle
and three sharp decisive puffs for your arguments!
4
He wasted money, energy and wrote
piffle
,
was his damning verdict.
5
The leader of the boys said: Aw,
piffle
,
cut it out.
1
Tyson could speak, Tyson could write, where other men
maunder
and drivel.
2
Apian continued to
maunder
over the Ptolemaic theory and astrology in his lecture-room.
3
And while you
maunder
about restoring competition, the trusts go on destroying you.
4
All of which it is a comfort somehow to
maunder
away on here.
5
That is what his life has turned, but he will not
maunder
about it.
1
A monkey chained in one corner began to
gibber
and mow at me.
2
After that he will be left to
gibber
his visions to padded walls.
3
The salinae scream and
gibber
,
desperate to communicate what they know.
4
He ached with desire to express and could but
gibber
prosaically as everybody gibbered.
5
Does she ask why? the assassin began to
gibber
.
1
And I started to
blabber
about how much she meant to me.
2
So, this was interestingtwo attorneys, an accountant, and a TV
blabber
person.
3
Why, you rotten, double-crossing,
blabber
-
mouthed
little tramp, I ought to kill you!
4
God knows, we're sure to hear enough of that
blabber
today.
5
Either way, you don't want to
blabber
along in a message about your cat's whole day.
1
Do you expect me to allow scandalous
tittle
-
tattle
to be spread about Town?
2
The General Here you see the effect of all this
tittle
-
tattle
.
3
This, however, is not mere
tittle
-
tattle
or tabloid fodder about romance.
4
Herein lies the secret of the avarice and
tittle
-
tattle
that poison provincial life.
5
And Minister, here's some juicy
tittle
-
tattle
we gathered for you earlier.
Usage of
prate
in English
1
We
prate
much of the family as the unit of the state.
2
We
prate
a lot about the fair sex and its sweet vanities.
3
The hardest part for a soldier to play is to
prate
well.
4
Quoth the Khalif, Thou shalt not forestall me with talk and
prate
.
5
But we
prate
like gossiping river-men.-Wiltsee the Skimmer of the Seas?
6
And who are you that
prate
of Constitutional Formulas, rights of Parliament?
7
Let the little people of the world
prate
of their little things!
8
But, isn't that just what men mean when they
prate
of success?
9
My politics are not those of the leather-jaws that
prate
in this land.
10
The moral is: Be as vicious as you please, but
prate
of virtue.
11
The talkers may think otherwise, may
prate
of soul-stirring motives, and great ideals.
12
And surely a foolish tongue, when rules not its idle
prate
13
They
prate
who say it is success that tries a man.
14
Achilles glared at him and answered, Fool,
prate
not to me about covenants.
15
We have no neighbours here-noneto stare, and pry, and
prate
,
and slander.
16
But I am not here to
prate
of myself,' I replied.
Other examples for "prate"
Grammar, pronunciation and more
About this term
prate
Noun
Singular
Verb
Indicative · Present
Frequent collocations
prate of
why prate
prate so
prate enough
prate much
More collocations
Translations for
prate
Catalan
claca
enraonadissa
xerrola
rall
xerrar
desbarrar
parlotejar
garlar
Spanish
disparate
conversación insustancial
conversación vana
charlar
disparatar
Portuguese
tagarelar
Prate
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Prate
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