praten.

Brit.

/preɪt/, U.S.

/preɪt/

Forms: 1500s– prate, 1700s prat.

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: prate v.

Etymology: < prate v. Compare West Frisian praat, Middle Dutch praet (Dutch praat), Middle Low German (rare) prōt (German regional (Low German) praat, (East Friesland) prôt), Swedish prat (1732), Danish prat (17th cent.).

Now archaic and rare.

The act or action of prating; talk; (in later use esp.) idle, profitless, or irrelevant talk; chatter, prattle; (also) an instance of this.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > [noun] > chatter

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clappingc1386

glavera1400

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clackc1440

blabc1460

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clitter-clatter1535

by-talk?1551

prattle1555

prittle-prattle1556

twittle-twattle1565

cacquet1567

prate?1574

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gibble-gabble1600

gabble1602

twattlea1639

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chitter-chatter1712

palavering1732

hubble-bubble1735

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rattle1748

gum1751

mag1778

gabber1780

gammon1781

gash1787

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gabber1792

whitter-whatter1805

yabble1808

clacket1812

talky-talky1812

potter1818

yatter1827

blue streak1830

gabblement1831

psilologya1834

chin-music1834

patter1841

jaw1842

chatter1851

brabble1861

tongue-work1866

yacker1882

talkee1885

chelp1891

chattermag1895

whitter1897

burble1898

yap1907

clatfart1913

jive1928

logorrhœa1935

waffle1937

yackety-yacking1953

yack1958

yackety-yack1958

motormouth1976

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > empty, idle talk > [noun]

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spitter-spatter1619

argology1623

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vaniloquy1623

drivelling1637

jabberment1645

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onology1670

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stultiloquence1721

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blether1786

havera1796

jaunder1796

havering1808

slaver1825

yatter1827

bugaboo1833

flapdoodle1834

bavardage1835

maunder1835

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gup1848

faddle1850

chatter1851

cock1851

drivel1852

maundering1853

drooling1854

windbaggery1859

blither1866

javer1869

mush1876

slobber1886

guff1888

squit1893

drool1900

macaroni1924

jive1928

natter1943

shtick1948

old talk1956

yack1958

yackety-yack1958

ole talk1964

Haigspeak1981

?1574 C. Vitell tr. H. Niclaes Dicta xvi. f. 40 Haue not much Prate or Disputation with the Straungers.

1592 ‘C. Cony-Catcher’ Def. Conny-catching sig. F [He] began to hold the felow in prate, and to question whose man he was.

1601 J. Marston et al. Iacke Drums Entertainm. i. sig. A3 The common foode of prate: what newes at court?

1621 J. Taylor Goose sig. B^v The fashion of their prate Our wiues at Gossipings doe imitate.

1704 S. Fuace in W. S. Perry Hist. Coll. Amer. Colonial Church: Virginia (1870) I. 90 ‘Hold your prate, Sirrah’ said he..‘you are an impudent Rogue’.

1729 J. Swift Jrnl. Dublin Lady 4 How should I Alas! relate The sum of all their Senseless prate.

1756 M. Calderwood Lett. & Jrnls. (1884) xiii. 330 I tell him..all the ill prats..of the Duke of Cumberland.

1788 E. Sheridan Let. in Betsy Sheridan's Jrnl. (1986) v. 122 I sat down to the first rubber but was..worried with Mrs Linley's incessant prate.

1827 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey III. v. iii. 65 I'll soon stop thy prate, chitterling!

1860 W. M. Thackeray Lovel (1869) ii. 163 On I would go with my prate about my passion, my wrongs, and despair.

1953 P. Colum Coll. Poems 60 I hate Absurdity of language, prate From growing fellows.

1993 N. Sibum Apostle's Secretary The chink of coins, the prate of a sage, the hawker selling Love's figurines.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

pratev.

Brit.

/preɪt/, U.S.

/preɪt/

Forms: late Middle English prete, late Middle English– prate, 1500s praite, 1500s prayt, 1600s prat, 1800s praate (Irish English (Wexford)); also Scottish pre-1700 prat, pre-1700 pratt.

Origin: Apparently either (i) a borrowing from Dutch. Or (ii) a borrowing from Middle Low German. Etymons: Dutch prāten; Middle Low German prōten.

Etymology: Apparently < either Middle Dutch prāten to babble, to speak (Dutch praten) or Middle Low German prōten, prāten to talk, to babble (German regional (Low German) praten, proten, (East Friesland) proten); further etymology uncertain, perhaps ultimately of imitative origin. Compare West Frisian prate, Middle High German braten (early modern German praten), Icelandic prata, Norwegian prate, Swedish prata (1651), Danish prate; all apparently < either Middle Low German or Dutch.There is no reason on formal grounds why the Middle English word could not be the reflex of an unattested Old English cognate of the Middle Dutch and Middle Low German words, but borrowing in the Middle English period seems more likely.

a. intransitive. Of domestic poultry: to make a characteristic sound; spec. †(of a cock) to crow (obsolete); (of a hen) to cluck, esp. to make the loud clucking noise associated with laying an egg (regional in later use).In origin perhaps an extended use of sense 2, although recorded slightly earlier.

ΚΠ

tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) i. 620 (MED) For a cok beth hennys fiue ynowe..And first in feueryeer of loue he preteth [v.r. prateth].

a1625 J. Fletcher Bonduca iii. v, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) 59 How does my Love? this is not he: my chicken could prate finely, sing a love-song.

a1627 T. Middleton No Wit (1657) ii. i. 48 The Hen may pick the meat, while the Cocks prate.

a1864 J. Clare Later Poems (1984) II. 898 Old hens prated loudly The Cock strutted proudly And the horse at the gate turned to let her go bye.

1873 J. Spilling Molly Miggs i. 6 If the hen doant prate she oant lay.

1888 S. O. Addy Gloss. Words Sheffield 180 Hens are said to prate when they go about in search of food.

1927 Amer. Speech 3 137 A loudly singing hen was said to ‘prate’. ‘The pullets are prating and will lay soon.’

†b. intransitive. Of hounds: to bark or howl, esp. on finding a scent; to give tongue. Obsolete.figurative in quot. 1592.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > dog > [verb (intransitive)] > bark

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galec1275

abayc1400

baffc1440

bawl1556

waff1570

baugh1576

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gladish1608

waffle1698

yamph1718

woof1804

allatrate1806

yaff1808

bow-wow1832

yaffle1847

kyoodle1935

1592 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) vii. xxxvi. 158 Loues Beagles be vncoupeld, Beautie praites And driues my Heart from out the Thicks.

1607 T. Hume Captaine Humes Poeticall Musicke sig. N₂ Harke, harke, harke Beuty Dainty prates Beuty Dainty prates The Hounds hunt The crie is full.

a. intransitive. To talk or chatter; to speak foolishly, boastfully, or at great length, esp. to little purpose; to prattle. Formerly also: †to tell tales or inform against someone (obsolete). Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > be talkative [verb (intransitive)] > talk excessively or chatter

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clapc1315

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rattlec1400

clatter1401

chimec1405

gabc1405

pattera1450

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to run on pattens1546

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tittle-tattle1556

quiddlea1566

brabble1570

clicket1570

twattle1573

gabble1574

prittle1583

to like to hear oneself speak, talk1597

to word it1612

deblaterate1623

tongue1624

twitter1630

snatter1647

oversay1656

whiffle1706

to gallop away1711

splutter1728

gob1770

gibble-gabble1775

palaver1781

to talk (etc.) nineteen to the dozen1785

gammon1789

witter1808

yabble1808

yaff1808

mag1810

chelp1820

tongue-pad1825

yatter1825

potter1826

chipper1829

jaw-jaw1831

buzz1832

to shoot off one's mouth1864

yawp1872

blate1878

chin1884

yap1888

spiel1894

to talk (also lie, swear, etc.) a blue streak1895

to run off at the mouth1908

chattermag1909

clatfart1913

to talk a streak1915

to run one's mouth1916

natter1942

ear-bash1944

rabbit1950

yack1950

yacker1961

to eat parrot head (also bottom)1965

yacket1969

to twat on1996

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > empty, idle talk > talk idly [verb (intransitive)]

chattera1250

drivelc1390

clatter1401

chatc1440

smattera1450

pratec1460

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babble?1504

blether1524

boblec1530

trattlea1555

tittle-tattle1556

fable1579

tinkle1638

whiffle1706

slaver1730

doitera1790

jaunder1808

haver1816

maunder1816

blather1825

yatter1825

blat1846

bibble-babble1888

flap-doodle1893

twiddle1893

spiel1894

rot1896

blither1903

to run off at the mouth1908

drool1923

twiddle-twaddle1925

crap1940

natter1942

yack1950

yacker1961

yacket1969

c1460 (a1449) J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1934) ii. 817 (MED) Off poore men doolys is no sekir date..He may weel grucche and with his tounge prate.

?a1475 Ludus Coventriae (1922) 327 (MED) We wyll not prate no lengere now; now we haue golde, no talys xul be tolde.

a1500 in T. Wright Songs & Carols (1847) 91 (MED) Some [women] can prate without hyere.

1550 J. Coke Deb. Heraldes Eng. & Fraunce sig. Dvij I meruayle syr Hralde how you dare so untruly prate agaynst your soueraygne lord y^e kyng of england.

1570 G. Buchanan Chamæleon in Vernac. Writings (1892) 53 [He] prattit proudlie, vantyng yat his pen sould be worth ten thowsand men.

1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 492 b You prate hard, but you prove nought.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) ii. i. 58 Thy very stones prate of my where-about.

1691 J. Dunton Voy. round World III. xi. 396 It would never sink into my fancy, that it could be of any great benefit to the Life of a Man of sence, to have twenty People prating about him when he is at Stool.

1713 R. Steele in Guardian 14 Mar. 1/2 Sober Wretches, who prate whole Evenings over Coffee.

1747 S. Richardson Clarissa I. viii. 49 No words.—I will not be prated to!

a1839 W. M. Praed Poems (1864) II. 31 And she is prating learnedly Of logic and of chemistry.

1871 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues I. 204 You prate, he said, instead of answering.

1955 R. S. Thomas Song at Year's Turning 56 And I remembered that old nurse Prating of Omens in the sky.

1993 M. Clynes Poisoned Chalice (BNC) 4 I sat in my pew and heard him prate on for at least an hour and a half.

b. intransitive. English regional (northern). to prate at: to scold or lecture. rare.

ΚΠ

1886 R. E. G. Cole Gloss. Words S.-W. Lincs. (at cited word) He might have prated at him and let it go by.

3. transitive. To utter or tell in a prating manner; to relate foolishly, boastfully, or at great length; (now esp.) to say in a tedious, pompous, or overbearing way. Frequently with clause as object; also (occasionally) with direct speech.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > utter in a chattering manner [verb (transitive)]

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gabber?1661

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chitter-chatter1928

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > empty, idle talk > utter in foolish matter [verb (transitive)]

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twaddle1826

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a1475 Sidrak & Bokkus (Lansd.) (Ph.D. diss., Univ. of Washington) (1965) 4802 (MED) Hise wordes he wole not lete But multiplie hem and hem prete, And so engendriþ he greet folie.

1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) xiv. 320 ‘What somever ye prate, say, or crake,’ sayd charlemagn, ‘ye shall not scape me.’

1575 W. Stevenson Gammer Gurtons Nedle ii. iv. sig. Ci^v Auant..syr knaue, what pratest thou of that I fynd.

1631 B. Jonson New Inne i. iii. 4 He prates Latine And 'twere a parrat, or a play-boy.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Pastorals iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 11 What Nonsense wou'd the Fool thy Master prate.

1737 H. Baker Medulla Poetarum Romanorum I. 464 Secure and free from Business of the State, And more secure of what the Vulgar prate, Here I enjoy my private Thoughts.

1797 T. Holcroft Adventures Hugh Trevor IV. xiv. 200 I mind my own affairs,..and look down with contempt on the puppies who prate philosophy, and bawl for reform.

1821 Ld. Byron Sardanapalus v. i. 155 You are sent to prate your master's will, and not Reply to mine.

1891 N. Gould Double Event 2 Prating mere polite nothings to a young lady fresh from school.

1930 G. F. Milton Age of Hate xxiii. 531 Butler made much of the ‘mischiefs of delay’, prating that it had taken the Almighty but forty days to destroy the world by flood.

1963 I. I. Morris tr. I. Saikaku Life of Amorous Woman 227 ‘Tea grounds, tea grounds!’ he prated, until people began to mutter among themselves [etc.].

2005 London Free Press (Ont.) (Nexis) 20 Mar. a17 Naysayers, meanwhile, continue prating that the science of global warming is unsound.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	prate
释义	praten. Brit. /preɪt/, U.S. /preɪt/ Forms: 1500s– prate, 1700s prat. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: prate v. Etymology: < prate v. Compare West Frisian praat, Middle Dutch praet (Dutch praat), Middle Low German (rare) prōt (German regional (Low German) praat, (East Friesland) prôt), Swedish prat (1732), Danish prat (17th cent.). Now archaic and rare. The act or action of prating; talk; (in later use esp.) idle, profitless, or irrelevant talk; chatter, prattle; (also) an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > [noun] > chatter chirma800 clappingc1386 glavera1400 clapa1420 clackc1440 blabc1460 clattera1500 babble?a1525 babblery1532 pratery1533 clitter-clatter1535 by-talk?1551 prattle1555 prittle-prattle1556 twittle-twattle1565 cacquet1567 prate?1574 prattlement1579 babblement1595 gibble-gabble1600 gabble1602 twattlea1639 tolutiloquence1656 pratement1657 gaggle1668 leden1674 cackle1676 twit-twat1677 clash1685 chit-chat1710 chatter-chitter1711 chitter-chatter1712 palavering1732 hubble-bubble1735 palaver1748 rattle1748 gum1751 mag1778 gabber1780 gammon1781 gash1787 chattery1789 gabber1792 whitter-whatter1805 yabble1808 clacket1812 talky-talky1812 potter1818 yatter1827 blue streak1830 gabblement1831 psilologya1834 chin-music1834 patter1841 jaw1842 chatter1851 brabble1861 tongue-work1866 yacker1882 talkee1885 chelp1891 chattermag1895 whitter1897 burble1898 yap1907 clatfart1913 jive1928 logorrhœa1935 waffle1937 yackety-yacking1953 yack1958 yackety-yack1958 motormouth1976 the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > empty, idle talk > [noun] windc1290 trotevalea1300 follyc1300 jangle1340 jangleryc1374 tongue1382 fablec1384 clapa1420 babbling?c1430 clackc1440 pratinga1470 waste?a1475 clattera1500 trattle1513 babble?a1525 tattlea1529 tittle-tattlea1529 chatc1530 babblery1532 bibble-babble1532 slaverings1535 trittle-trattle1563 prate?1574 babblement1595 pribble-prabble1595 pribble1603 morologya1614 pibble-pabblea1616 sounda1616 spitter-spatter1619 argology1623 vaniloquence1623 vaniloquy1623 drivelling1637 jabberment1645 blateration1656 onology1670 whittie-whattiea1687 stultiloquence1721 claver1722 blether1786 havera1796 jaunder1796 havering1808 slaver1825 yatter1827 bugaboo1833 flapdoodle1834 bavardage1835 maunder1835 tattlement1837 slabber1840 gup1848 faddle1850 chatter1851 cock1851 drivel1852 maundering1853 drooling1854 windbaggery1859 blither1866 javer1869 mush1876 slobber1886 guff1888 squit1893 drool1900 macaroni1924 jive1928 natter1943 shtick1948 old talk1956 yack1958 yackety-yack1958 ole talk1964 Haigspeak1981 ?1574 C. Vitell tr. H. Niclaes Dicta xvi. f. 40 Haue not much Prate or Disputation with the Straungers. 1592 ‘C. Cony-Catcher’ Def. Conny-catching sig. F [He] began to hold the felow in prate, and to question whose man he was. 1601 J. Marston et al. Iacke Drums Entertainm. i. sig. A3 The common foode of prate: what newes at court? 1621 J. Taylor Goose sig. B^v The fashion of their prate Our wiues at Gossipings doe imitate. 1704 S. Fuace in W. S. Perry Hist. Coll. Amer. Colonial Church: Virginia (1870) I. 90 ‘Hold your prate, Sirrah’ said he..‘you are an impudent Rogue’. 1729 J. Swift Jrnl. Dublin Lady 4 How should I Alas! relate The sum of all their Senseless prate. 1756 M. Calderwood Lett. & Jrnls. (1884) xiii. 330 I tell him..all the ill prats..of the Duke of Cumberland. 1788 E. Sheridan Let. in Betsy Sheridan's Jrnl. (1986) v. 122 I sat down to the first rubber but was..worried with Mrs Linley's incessant prate. 1827 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey III. v. iii. 65 I'll soon stop thy prate, chitterling! 1860 W. M. Thackeray Lovel (1869) ii. 163 On I would go with my prate about my passion, my wrongs, and despair. 1953 P. Colum Coll. Poems 60 I hate Absurdity of language, prate From growing fellows. 1993 N. Sibum Apostle's Secretary The chink of coins, the prate of a sage, the hawker selling Love's figurines. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). pratev. Brit. /preɪt/, U.S. /preɪt/ Forms: late Middle English prete, late Middle English– prate, 1500s praite, 1500s prayt, 1600s prat, 1800s praate (Irish English (Wexford)); also Scottish pre-1700 prat, pre-1700 pratt. Origin: Apparently either (i) a borrowing from Dutch. Or (ii) a borrowing from Middle Low German. Etymons: Dutch prāten; Middle Low German prōten. Etymology: Apparently < either Middle Dutch prāten to babble, to speak (Dutch praten) or Middle Low German prōten, prāten to talk, to babble (German regional (Low German) praten, proten, (East Friesland) proten); further etymology uncertain, perhaps ultimately of imitative origin. Compare West Frisian prate, Middle High German braten (early modern German praten), Icelandic prata, Norwegian prate, Swedish prata (1651), Danish prate; all apparently < either Middle Low German or Dutch.There is no reason on formal grounds why the Middle English word could not be the reflex of an unattested Old English cognate of the Middle Dutch and Middle Low German words, but borrowing in the Middle English period seems more likely. 1. a. intransitive. Of domestic poultry: to make a characteristic sound; spec. †(of a cock) to crow (obsolete); (of a hen) to cluck, esp. to make the loud clucking noise associated with laying an egg (regional in later use).In origin perhaps an extended use of sense 2, although recorded slightly earlier. ΚΠ tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) i. 620 (MED) For a cok beth hennys fiue ynowe..And first in feueryeer of loue he preteth [v.r. prateth]. a1625 J. Fletcher Bonduca iii. v, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) 59 How does my Love? this is not he: my chicken could prate finely, sing a love-song. a1627 T. Middleton No Wit (1657) ii. i. 48 The Hen may pick the meat, while the Cocks prate. a1864 J. Clare Later Poems (1984) II. 898 Old hens prated loudly The Cock strutted proudly And the horse at the gate turned to let her go bye. 1873 J. Spilling Molly Miggs i. 6 If the hen doant prate she oant lay. 1888 S. O. Addy Gloss. Words Sheffield 180 Hens are said to prate when they go about in search of food. 1927 Amer. Speech 3 137 A loudly singing hen was said to ‘prate’. ‘The pullets are prating and will lay soon.’ †b. intransitive. Of hounds: to bark or howl, esp. on finding a scent; to give tongue. Obsolete.figurative in quot. 1592. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > dog > [verb (intransitive)] > bark barkc885 galec1275 abayc1400 baffc1440 bawl1556 waff1570 baugh1576 prate1592 gladish1608 waffle1698 yamph1718 woof1804 allatrate1806 yaff1808 bow-wow1832 yaffle1847 kyoodle1935 1592 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) vii. xxxvi. 158 Loues Beagles be vncoupeld, Beautie praites And driues my Heart from out the Thicks. 1607 T. Hume Captaine Humes Poeticall Musicke sig. N₂ Harke, harke, harke Beuty Dainty prates Beuty Dainty prates The Hounds hunt The crie is full. 2. a. intransitive. To talk or chatter; to speak foolishly, boastfully, or at great length, esp. to little purpose; to prattle. Formerly also: †to tell tales or inform against someone (obsolete). Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > be talkative [verb (intransitive)] > talk excessively or chatter chavel?c1225 babblea1250 chattera1250 clacka1250 janglea1300 ganglec1300 clapc1315 mumblec1350 blabberc1375 carp1377 tatterc1380 garre1382 rattlec1400 clatter1401 chimec1405 gabc1405 pattera1450 smattera1450 languetc1450 pratec1460 chat1483 jabber1499 clittera1529 cackle1530 prattle1532 blatter1533 blab1535 to run on pattens1546 tattle1547 prittle-prattlea1555 trattlea1555 tittle-tattle1556 quiddlea1566 brabble1570 clicket1570 twattle1573 gabble1574 prittle1583 to like to hear oneself speak, talk1597 to word it1612 deblaterate1623 tongue1624 twitter1630 snatter1647 oversay1656 whiffle1706 to gallop away1711 splutter1728 gob1770 gibble-gabble1775 palaver1781 to talk (etc.) nineteen to the dozen1785 gammon1789 witter1808 yabble1808 yaff1808 mag1810 chelp1820 tongue-pad1825 yatter1825 potter1826 chipper1829 jaw-jaw1831 buzz1832 to shoot off one's mouth1864 yawp1872 blate1878 chin1884 yap1888 spiel1894 to talk (also lie, swear, etc.) a blue streak1895 to run off at the mouth1908 chattermag1909 clatfart1913 to talk a streak1915 to run one's mouth1916 natter1942 ear-bash1944 rabbit1950 yack1950 yacker1961 to eat parrot head (also bottom)1965 yacket1969 to twat on1996 the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > empty, idle talk > talk idly [verb (intransitive)] chattera1250 drivelc1390 clatter1401 chatc1440 smattera1450 pratec1460 blaver1461 babble?1504 blether1524 boblec1530 trattlea1555 tittle-tattle1556 fable1579 tinkle1638 whiffle1706 slaver1730 doitera1790 jaunder1808 haver1816 maunder1816 blather1825 yatter1825 blat1846 bibble-babble1888 flap-doodle1893 twiddle1893 spiel1894 rot1896 blither1903 to run off at the mouth1908 drool1923 twiddle-twaddle1925 crap1940 natter1942 yack1950 yacker1961 yacket1969 c1460 (a1449) J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1934) ii. 817 (MED) Off poore men doolys is no sekir date..He may weel grucche and with his tounge prate. ?a1475 Ludus Coventriae (1922) 327 (MED) We wyll not prate no lengere now; now we haue golde, no talys xul be tolde. a1500 in T. Wright Songs & Carols (1847) 91 (MED) Some [women] can prate without hyere. 1550 J. Coke Deb. Heraldes Eng. & Fraunce sig. Dvij I meruayle syr Hralde how you dare so untruly prate agaynst your soueraygne lord y^e kyng of england. 1570 G. Buchanan Chamæleon in Vernac. Writings (1892) 53 [He] prattit proudlie, vantyng yat his pen sould be worth ten thowsand men. 1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 492 b You prate hard, but you prove nought. a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) ii. i. 58 Thy very stones prate of my where-about. View more context for this quotation 1691 J. Dunton Voy. round World III. xi. 396 It would never sink into my fancy, that it could be of any great benefit to the Life of a Man of sence, to have twenty People prating about him when he is at Stool. 1713 R. Steele in Guardian 14 Mar. 1/2 Sober Wretches, who prate whole Evenings over Coffee. 1747 S. Richardson Clarissa I. viii. 49 No words.—I will not be prated to! a1839 W. M. Praed Poems (1864) II. 31 And she is prating learnedly Of logic and of chemistry. 1871 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues I. 204 You prate, he said, instead of answering. 1955 R. S. Thomas Song at Year's Turning 56 And I remembered that old nurse Prating of Omens in the sky. 1993 M. Clynes Poisoned Chalice (BNC) 4 I sat in my pew and heard him prate on for at least an hour and a half. b. intransitive. English regional (northern). to prate at: to scold or lecture. rare. ΚΠ 1886 R. E. G. Cole Gloss. Words S.-W. Lincs. (at cited word) He might have prated at him and let it go by. 3. transitive. To utter or tell in a prating manner; to relate foolishly, boastfully, or at great length; (now esp.) to say in a tedious, pompous, or overbearing way. Frequently with clause as object; also (occasionally) with direct speech. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > utter in a chattering manner [verb (transitive)] cacklec1230 chattera1250 clapc1315 jangle1377 blabberc1380 trattlea1425 pratea1475 chat1483 prattlea1500 prittle-prattlea1555 gabble1566 blatter?1567 gaggle1577 clacket1579 knap1581 prittle1583 clack1590 volley1591 tattle1593 prabble1603 out-babble1649 garrulate1656 gabber?1661 chime1697 spiel1904 chitter-chatter1928 the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > empty, idle talk > utter in foolish matter [verb (transitive)] trattlea1425 babblec1450 pratea1475 drivel1752 twaddle1826 maunder1834 bibble-babble1888 a1475 Sidrak & Bokkus (Lansd.) (Ph.D. diss., Univ. of Washington) (1965) 4802 (MED) Hise wordes he wole not lete But multiplie hem and hem prete, And so engendriþ he greet folie. 1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) xiv. 320 ‘What somever ye prate, say, or crake,’ sayd charlemagn, ‘ye shall not scape me.’ 1575 W. Stevenson Gammer Gurtons Nedle ii. iv. sig. Ci^v Auant..syr knaue, what pratest thou of that I fynd. 1631 B. Jonson New Inne i. iii. 4 He prates Latine And 'twere a parrat, or a play-boy. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Pastorals iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 11 What Nonsense wou'd the Fool thy Master prate. 1737 H. Baker Medulla Poetarum Romanorum I. 464 Secure and free from Business of the State, And more secure of what the Vulgar prate, Here I enjoy my private Thoughts. 1797 T. Holcroft Adventures Hugh Trevor IV. xiv. 200 I mind my own affairs,..and look down with contempt on the puppies who prate philosophy, and bawl for reform. 1821 Ld. Byron Sardanapalus v. i. 155 You are sent to prate your master's will, and not Reply to mine. 1891 N. Gould Double Event 2 Prating mere polite nothings to a young lady fresh from school. 1930 G. F. Milton Age of Hate xxiii. 531 Butler made much of the ‘mischiefs of delay’, prating that it had taken the Almighty but forty days to destroy the world by flood. 1963 I. I. Morris tr. I. Saikaku Life of Amorous Woman 227 ‘Tea grounds, tea grounds!’ he prated, until people began to mutter among themselves [etc.]. 2005 London Free Press (Ont.) (Nexis) 20 Mar. a17 Naysayers, meanwhile, continue prating that the science of global warming is unsound. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.?1574v.?1440
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