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Meanings of prattle in English

Catalan
claca
Spanish
disparate

Idle or foolish and irrelevant talk.

        claca
        Portuguese
        tagarelar
        Catalan
        xerrar
        Spanish
        charlar

        Speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly.

            tagarelar
            Usage of prattle in English
            1
            Rick listens to her prattle on for several minutes, and then apologizes.
            The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest ...
            2
            Another week and time again for you to indulge my incorrigible prattle.
            Hemlock Grove
            3
            Even babies echoed the names of our two heroes in their prattle.
            A New England Girlhood, Outlined from Memory (Beverly, MA)
            4
            He pauses seriously to thank them in the midst of his prattle.
            The Spirit of Place, and Other Essays
            5
            But to my pleasing task; again let me prattle to my friend.
            Anna St. Ives
            6
            But through her mild prattle, and in spite of her limited perceptions.
            The Custom of the Country
            7
            What you prattle about is not at all as you describe it.
            Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice
            8
            There were many sub-genres of cross we wanted to prattle on about.
            The Guardian
            9
            It said not a word, being perhaps under-witted and incapable of prattle.
            Our Old Home: A Series of English Sketches
            10
            The prattle of voices-anintoxicated, merry Shrovetide prattle of voices arose everywhere.
            The Seven Who Were Hanged
            11
            This sweet prattle of hers, however, only charms him all the more.
            Stage-Land
            12
            Like Israel, you prattle about morality while you behave like the Gestapo.
            Carrion comfort
            13
            Jerry's gaiety was as the prattle of a child to her now.
            The Odds / And Other Stories
            14
            I'll look at your birds and prattle with your flowers, dear heart.
            Master Olof: A Drama in Five Acts
            15
            He whispered into Almayer's ear a childish prattle of many years ago.
            Almayer's Folly: A Story of an Eastern River
            16
            Would you not have liked to hear him prattle over the champagne?
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            Translations for prattle
            Portuguese
            tagarelar
            Prattle through the time
            Prattle across language varieties
            United Kingdom
            Common
            United States of America
            Less common