| 单词 | pribble and prabble |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspribble and prabble A petty or pointless dispute, a squabble; trivial or nonsensical speech or writing; squabbling, quarrelling; idle chit-chat. Only in collocation pribble and prabble. ΘΚΠ 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 the mind > attention and judgement > testing > debate, disputation, argument > controversy, dispute, argument > [noun] > petty, frivolous pribble-prabble1595 pribble and prabble1603 1603 T. Dekker et al. Patient Grissill sig. C3v Her thinke the prittish shentleman, is faliant as Mars that, is..the God of pribles & prables. 1693 T. D'Urfey Richmond Heiress i. i. 8 There is crete deale of Doubts, and Jealousies, and Pribbles, and Prabbles, which shew Loves and Affections, look you. 1853 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes (1854) I. ii. 15 All these squabbles and jokes, and pribbles and prabbles,..may be omitted. 1906 Times 28 Sept. 6/3 (advt.) (title) Pribbles and prabbles: or rambling reflections on varied topics. 1993 Observer (Nexis) 31 Oct. (Review section) 11 The intoxication of language, the pribbles and prabbles, the literary jokes..are just right in this setting. < as lemmas |
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