prattle

noun

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Pronunciation: /ˈpɹætəl/

Etymology: From prate + -le (early modern English frequentative suffix). Compare Dutch pruttelen and Dutch preutelen (“to mutter”).

Silly, childish talk; babble.
“Mere prattle without practice is all his soldiership.”
“[...] if you fatigue people by haying them always present, if you encourage or repeat their prattle and their sports; [...]”

Etymology: From prate + -le (early modern English frequentative suffix). Compare Dutch pruttelen and Dutch preutelen (“to mutter”).

To speak incessantly and in an inconsequential or childish manner; to babble.
“And as E. Rushmore Coglan prattled of this little planet I thought with glee of a great almost-cosmopolite who wrote for the whole world and dedicated himself to Bombay.”
“I looked across at Anna, and I noticed that her eyes had grown strangely blank, without expression. I felt instinctively that the subject brought up by Victor was one she would not have chosen. Victor, insensitive to this, went prattling on.”