'Prate' definitions:

Definition of 'prate'

(from WordNet)
noun
Idle or foolish and irrelevant talk [syn: prate, prattle, idle talk, blether, chin music]
verb
Speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly [syn: chatter, piffle, palaver, prate, tittle- tattle, twaddle, clack, maunder, prattle, blab, gibber, tattle, blabber, gabble]

Definition of 'Prate'

From: GCIDE
  • Prate \Prate\, v. t. To utter foolishly; to speak without reason or purpose; to chatter, or babble. [1913 Webster]
  • What nonsense would the fool, thy master, prate, When thou, his knave, canst talk at such a rate ! --Dryden. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Prate'

From: GCIDE
  • Prate \Prate\, n. [Akin to LG. & D. praat, Sw. prat.] Talk to little purpose; trifling talk; unmeaning loquacity. [1913 Webster]
  • Sick of tops, and poetry, and prate. --Pope. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Prate'

From: GCIDE
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • To prate and talk for life and honor. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • And make a fool presume to prate of love. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]

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