Prate \Prate\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Prated; p. pr. & vb. n.
Prating.] [Akin to LG. & D. praten, Dan. prate, Sw. & Icel.
prata.]
To talk much and to little purpose; to be loquacious; to
speak foolishly; to babble.
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To prate and talk for life and honor. --Shak.
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And make a fool presume to prate of love. --Dryden.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Prate \Prate\, v. t.
To utter foolishly; to speak without reason or purpose; to
chatter, or babble.
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What nonsense would the fool, thy master, prate,
When thou, his knave, canst talk at such a rate !
--Dryden.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Prate \Prate\, n. [Akin to LG. & D. praat, Sw. prat.]
Talk to little purpose; trifling talk; unmeaning loquacity.
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Sick of tops, and poetry, and prate. --Pope.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
prate
n : idle or foolish and irrelevant talk [syn: prattle, idle
talk, blether, chin music]
v : speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
[syn: chatter, piffle, palaver, tittle-tattle, twaddle,
clack, maunder, prattle, blab, gibber, tattle,
blabber, gabble]
WordNet (r) 2.0
110 Moby Thesaurus words for "prate":
absurdity, amphigory, babble, babblement, balderdash, bavardage,
bibble-babble, blab, blabber, blah-blah, blather, blether,
blethers, blow, bombast, brag, bull, bullshit, cackle, caquet,
caqueterie, chat, chatter, chitter-chatter, clack, claptrap,
clatter, cock-a-doodle-doo, crow, dither, double-talk, drivel,
drool, fiddle-faddle, fiddledeedee, flummery, folderol, fudge,
fustian, gab, gabble, galimatias, gammon, gas, gasconade, gibber,
gibberish, gibble-gabble, go on, gobbledygook, gossip, guff, gush,
haver, hocus-pocus, hot air, humbug, idle talk, jabber, jargon,
jaw, mere talk, mouth, mumbo jumbo, narrishkeit, natter, niaiserie,
nonsense, nonsense talk, pack of nonsense, palaver, patter, piffle,
pour forth, prating, prattle, prittle-prattle, puff, ramble on,
rant, rattle, rattle on, reel off, rigamarole, rigmarole,
rodomontade, rubbish, run on, skimble-skamble, spout, spout off,
stuff and nonsense, stultiloquence, talk away, talk nonsense,
talk on, talkee-talkee, tittle-tattle, trash, trumpery, twaddle,
twattle, twiddle-twaddle, vapor, vaporing, vaunt, waffle, waffling,
yak, yakkety-yak
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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