Results for prattle

Definitions of prattle:

part of speech: verb transitive, verb intransitive

To chatter idly.

part of speech: verb intransitive

To prate or talk much and idly: to utter child's talk.

part of speech: noun

Childish talk.

part of speech: noun

Trifling talk; the pleasant trivial conversation of young children.

part of speech: verb

To talk like a child, to chatter; to talk lightly.

part of speech: noun

Prattler.

Usage examples for prattle:

• Fools prattle and tattle Of freedom, reason, right, The beauty of duty, The loveliness of light. "A Midsummer Holiday and Other Poems", Algernon Charles Swinburne

• She was lingering, then, upon a certain dark threshold which she would have crossed very gladly but for voices that held her back; the prattle of a child, the thin, helpless whimper of a baby. "Kildares of Storm", Eleanor Mercein Kelly

• She missed sorely the children's demands upon her, their play and prattle and movement about the place. "Judith of the Cumberlands", Alice MacGowan

• Though he made no effort to engage her in conversation, he had lingered in her vicinity, listening to her childish prattle and, contrary to expectations, long after the need of his services was past, he had loitered on the polo- ground till the Merediths had driven away in their car. "Banked Fires", E. W. (Ethel Winifred) Savi