prate

prate
    n 1: idle or foolish and irrelevant talk [syn: {prate},
         {prattle}, {idle talk}, {blether}, {chin music}]
    v 1: speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
         [syn: {chatter}, {piffle}, {palaver}, {prate}, {tittle-
         tattle}, {twaddle}, {clack}, {maunder}, {prattle}, {blab},
         {gibber}, {tattle}, {blabber}, {gabble}]
    

Prate \Prate\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Prated}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Prating}.] [Akin to LG. & D. praten, Dan. prate, Sw. & Icel.
   prata.]
   To talk much and to little purpose; to be loquacious; to
   speak foolishly; to babble.
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         To prate and talk for life and honor.    --Shak.
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         And make a fool presume to prate of love. --Dryden.
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Prate \Prate\, v. t.
   To utter foolishly; to speak without reason or purpose; to
   chatter, or babble.
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         What nonsense would the fool, thy master, prate,
         When thou, his knave, canst talk at such a rate !
                                                  --Dryden.
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Prate \Prate\, n. [Akin to LG. & D. praat, Sw. prat.]
   Talk to little purpose; trifling talk; unmeaning loquacity.
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         Sick of tops, and poetry, and prate.     --Pope.
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110 Moby Thesaurus words for "prate":
      absurdity, amphigory, babble, babblement, balderdash, bavardage,
      bibble-babble, blab, blabber, blah-blah, blather, blether,
      blethers, blow, bombast, brag, bull, bullshit, cackle, caquet,
      caqueterie, chat, chatter, chitter-chatter, clack, claptrap,
      clatter, cock-a-doodle-doo, crow, dither, double-talk, drivel,
      drool, fiddle-faddle, fiddledeedee, flummery, folderol, fudge,
      fustian, gab, gabble, galimatias, gammon, gas, gasconade, gibber,
      gibberish, gibble-gabble, go on, gobbledygook, gossip, guff, gush,
      haver, hocus-pocus, hot air, humbug, idle talk, jabber, jargon,
      jaw, mere talk, mouth, mumbo jumbo, narrishkeit, natter, niaiserie,
      nonsense, nonsense talk, pack of nonsense, palaver, patter, piffle,
      pour forth, prating, prattle, prittle-prattle, puff, ramble on,
      rant, rattle, rattle on, reel off, rigamarole, rigmarole,
      rodomontade, rubbish, run on, skimble-skamble, spout, spout off,
      stuff and nonsense, stultiloquence, talk away, talk nonsense,
      talk on, talkee-talkee, tittle-tattle, trash, trumpery, twaddle,
      twattle, twiddle-twaddle, vapor, vaporing, vaunt, waffle, waffling,
      yak, yakkety-yak