| 单词 | prattle |
| 释义 | prattle (once / 2371 pages) vn If your little sister won't stop talking about her latest crush and you don't want to hear it, you might say, "Stop prattling on about that loser!" To prattle is go on and on about something unimportant. Prattle can also be a noun. If your sister tattles about your comment regarding her prattling, you could defend yourself to your mother with: "I didn't mean to call Sophie's crush a loser, but she had driven me mad with her constant prattle." There are a lot of funny-sounding words with a meaning similar to prattle - chatter, blether, blather, jabber, gabble, blabber, and babble, to name a few. WORD FAMILYprattle: prattled, prattler, prattles, prattling+/prattler: prattlers USAGE EXAMPLESOnward, to Twins African Fashion, where Comfort Adesigbin reluctantly pauses from prattling into a cellphone to discuss the mall’s multicultural clientele. Washington Post(Dec 28, 2016) Why is Johnson prattling on about some cave bear that met its demise 43,000 years ago in what is today Slovenia? Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016) There are too many characters, too much tactical and technical explanation, too much pseudo-political prattle. New York Times(Dec 13, 2016) 1v speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly Syn|Hypo|Hyper blab, blabber, chatter, clack, gabble, gibber, maunder, palaver, piffle, prate, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle babble, blather, blether, blither, smatter to talk foolishly mouth, speak, talk, utter, verbalise, verbalize express in speech 2n idle or foolish and irrelevant talk Syn|Hyper blether, chin music, idle talk, prate cackle, chatter, yack, yak, yakety-yak noisy talk |
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