prattle

prattle
    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}]
    

Prattle \Prat"tle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Prattled}; p. pr. & vb.
   n. {Prattling}.] [Freq. of prate.]
   To talk much and idly; to prate; hence, to talk lightly and
   artlessly, like a child; to utter child's talk.
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Prattle \Prat"tle\, v. t.
   To utter as prattle; to babble; as, to prattle treason.
   --Addison.
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Prattle \Prat"tle\, n.
   Trifling or childish tattle; empty talk; loquacity on trivial
   subjects; prate; babble.
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         Mere prattle, without practice.          --Shak.
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152 Moby Thesaurus words for "prattle":
      absurdity, accents, amphigory, babble, babblement, babbling,
      balderdash, bavardage, be closeted with, bibble-babble, blab,
      blabber, blah-blah, blather, blathering, blether, blethers,
      blither, bombast, bull, bullshit, bunk, bunkum, cackle, caquet,
      caqueterie, chat, chatter, chattering, chitter-chatter, clack,
      claptrap, clatter, comment, conversation, coze, crap, discourse,
      dither, double-talk, drivel, drool, elocution, fiddle-faddle,
      fiddledeedee, flapdoodle, flummery, folderol, foolishness, fudge,
      fustian, gab, gabber, gabble, gabbling, galimatias, gam, gammon,
      garbage, gas, gibber, gibbering, gibberish, gibble-gabble, go on,
      gobbledygook, going on, gossip, guff, gush, haver, hocus-pocus,
      hogwash, hooey, hot air, humbug, idle talk, jabber, jabbering,
      jabberwocky, jargon, jaw, jawing, language, make conversation,
      maunder, maundering, mere talk, moonshine, mumbo jumbo,
      mumbo-jumbo, narrishkeit, natter, niaiserie, nonsense,
      nonsense talk, oral communication, pack of nonsense, palaver,
      palavering, parole, patter, piffle, poppycock, pour forth, prate,
      prating, prittle-prattle, ramble on, rant, rapping, rattle,
      rattle on, reel off, rigamarole, rigmarole, rodomontade, rot,
      rubbish, run on, skimble-skamble, speaking, speech, spout,
      spout off, stuff and nonsense, stultiloquence, swill, talk,
      talk away, talk nonsense, talk on, talkee-talkee, talking, tattle,
      tete-a-tete, tittle-tattle, trash, trumpery, twaddle, twattle,
      twiddle-twaddle, twitter, vapor, vaporing, visit, waffle, waffling,
      words, yak, yakkety-yak, yakking