prattle

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Silly, childish talk; babble. uncountable
    — Mere prattle without practice is all his soldiership.
动词 v.
  1. To speak incessantly and in an inconsequential or childish manner; to babble. ambitransitive
    — And as E. Rushmore Coglan prattled of this little planet I thought with glee of a great almost-cosmopolite who wrote for the whole world and dedicated himself to Bombay.

词形变化

prattles present,singular,third-person prattling participle,present prattled participle,past prattled past

词汇关系

反义词
orate pontificate speechify
衍生词
prattlebox prattlement prattlesome

词源

词源 1
From prate + -le (early modern English frequentative suffix). Compare Dutch pruttelen and Dutch preutelen (“to mutter”).
词源 2
From prate + -le (early modern English frequentative suffix). Compare Dutch pruttelen and Dutch preutelen (“to mutter”).
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