prate

[prate]

To prate means to talk on and on about something. While it may be interesting to hear about other people’s vacations, when they prate about them until the wee hours, it becomes intolerable.

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To talk much and to little purpose; to be loquacious; to speak foolishly; to babble.

Noun
idle or foolish and irrelevant talk

Verb
speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly


v. i.
To talk much and to little purpose; to be loquacious; to speak foolishly; to babble.

v. t.
To utter foolishly; to speak without reason or purpose; to chatter, or babble.

n.
Talk to little purpose; trifling talk; unmeaning loquacity.


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.
To prate and talk for life and honor.
And make a fool presume to prate of love.

Prate

Prate, v. t. To utter foolishly; to speak without reason or purpose; to chatter, or babble.
What nonsense would the fool, thy master, prate, When thou, his knave, canst talk at such a rate !

Prate

Prate, n. [Akin to LG. & D. praat, Sw. prat.] Talk to little purpose; trifling talk; unmeaning loquacity.
Sick of tops, and poetry, and prate.

To talk much and to little purpose; to be loquacious; to speak foolishly; to babble.

To utter foolishly; to speak without reason or purpose; to chatter, or babble.

Talk to little purpose; trifling talk; unmeaning loquacity.

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Usage Examples

But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

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