prate – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
מילים נרדפות: yakety-yak,
cackle,
yack,
chatter,
yak,
speak,
verbalize,
talk,
verbalise,
utter,
mouth
prate
v.
chatter, talk about trivial matters, babble, gab; express foolishly, utter using nonsensical talk
Fluency
prate
Noun
1. idle or foolish and irrelevant talk
(synonym) prattle, idle talk, blether, chin music
(hypernym) yak, yack, yakety-yak, chatter, cackle
(derivation) chatter, piffle, palaver, tittle-tattle, twaddle, clack, maunder, prattle, blab, gibber, tattle, blabber, gabble
Verb
1. speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
(synonym) chatter, piffle, palaver, tittle-tattle, twaddle, clack, maunder, prattle, blab, gibber, tattle, blabber, gabble
(hypernym) talk, speak, utter, mouth, verbalize, verbalise
(hyponym) babble, blather, smatter, blether, blither
(derivation) chatterer, babbler, prater, chatterbox, magpie, spouter
Prate
(v. t.)
To utter foolishly; to speak without reason or purpose; to chatter, or babble.
(v. i.)
To talk much and to little purpose; to be loquacious; to speak foolishly; to babble.
(n.)
Talk to little purpose; trifling talk; unmeaning loquacity.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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