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Divel vs Prattle - What's the difference?

divel | prattle |

As verbs the difference between divel and prattle

is that divel is (obsolete) to rend apart while prattle is (ambitransitive) to speak incessantly and in a childish manner; to babble.

As a noun prattle is

silly, childish, talk; babble.

divel

English

Verb

(divell)
  • (obsolete) To rend apart.
  • (Sir Thomas Browne)
    (Webster 1913)

    prattle

    English

    Verb

    (prattl)
  • (ambitransitive) To speak incessantly and in a childish manner; to babble.
  • Derived terms

    * prattler * prattlingly

    Noun

    (-)
  • Silly, childish, talk; babble.
  • * c. 1603 , William Shakespeare, Othello, the Moor of Venice , Act I, scene I, line 27
  • Mere prattle without practice is all his soldiership.

    Synonyms

    * See also * See also

    References

    * prattle'', in ''The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition (2000)

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