prattle

Noun

• idle or foolish and irrelevant talk
• Silly, childish talk; babble.

Verb

Verb Forms: prattled, prattling, prattles

• To babble; to talk at length in a foolish or inconsequential way.
• speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
• To speak incessantly and in an inconsequential or childish manner; to babble.

Examples

• My opponent would PRATTLE on about their lucky draws, but my strategy proved superior.

Synonyms

blab, blabber, blether, chatter, chin music, clack, gabble, gibber, idle talk, maunder, palaver, piffle, prate, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle, BS, Bandini, Greek, Irish bull, absurdity, all my eye, all my eye and Betty Martin, applesauce, babble, bafflegab, balderdash, balls, baloney, banana oil, baragouin, bat the breeze, batcrap, batshit, bavardage, bibble-babble, bilgewater, blabbing, blah, blather, blathering, blatherskite, bobbins, bollocks, bosh, bull, bull feathers, bullcrap, bulldust, bullshit, bullspeak, bunk, bunkum, bushwah, carp, chat, chew the fat, chew the rag, chinwag, chit-chat, chunner, clamjamfrey, claptrap, claver, clepe, cobblers, codswallop, crap, crock, crock of shit, double Dutch, double talk, doublespeak, drivel, eyewash, fiddle-faddle, flapdoodle, flim-flam, flizz, flummery, folderol, foolishness, footle, framis, fuckery, fuckry, fudge, galimatias, garbage, garble, gibberish, go on, gobbledygook, gossip, guff, gup, hoax, hocus-pocus, hogwash, hokum, hooey, horse hockey, horse piss, horse puckey, horsefeathers, horseshit, hot air, humbug, jabber, jargon, jibber-jabber, jimjam, jive, junk, lallation, macaroni, malarkey, manure, mardle, meaninglessness, moonshine, mumbo jumbo, natter, nertz, nonsense, pie in the sky, pigswill, poppycock, prattle, put-on, rabbit, rabbit on, ramble, rhubarb, rhubarb rhubarb, rigmarole, rot, rubbish, ruse, santorum, scuttlebutt, shit, shite, shoot the breeze, shoot the bull, shoot the shit, skimble-skamble, small talk, smatter, squit, stuff, stuff and nonsense, tommy-rot, tosh, trash, tripe, tush, waffle, wass, whiff-whaff, wibble, witter, word salad, yabber, yack, yackety-yak, yap, yatter

Antonyms

orate, pontificate, speechify

Related Words

chatterbox, talkative