prate
Plural: prates
Noun
- idle or foolish and irrelevant talk
- Talk to little purpose; trifling talk; unmeaningful loquacity.
Verb
Verb Forms: prated, prating, prates
- To talk foolishly or excessively; to chatter.
- speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
- To talk much and to little purpose; to be loquacious; to speak foolishly.
Examples
- While my opponent PRATED about their lead, I quietly planned my comeback.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English praten; related to Dutch praten (“to talk, chat”), Low German praten, dated German pfrassen, Danish prate, Swedish prata (“to talk, prate”), Faroese práta (“to talk, gossip”), Icelandic prata; all ultimately from Proto-Germanic *prattuz (“idle or boastful talk, deceit”), from Proto-Indo-European *bred- (“to wander, rove”). Cognate with Polish bredzić (“to rave, jabber”), Latvian bradāt (“to talk nonsense”).
Synonyms
blab, blabber, blether, chatter, chin music, clack, gabble, gibber, idle talk, maunder, palaver, piffle, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle, babble, bat the breeze, blather, carp, chat, chew the fat, chew the rag, chinwag, chit-chat, chunner, claver, clepe, drivel, go on, jabber, natter, prate, rabbit, rabbit on, ramble, shoot the breeze, shoot the bull, shoot the shit, smatter, waffle, wibble, witter, yabber, yack, yap, yatter
Scrabble Score: 7
prate: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordprate: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
prate: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary