Prate vs Banter - What's the difference?
prate | banter |
To talk much and to little purpose; to chatter; to be loquacious; to speak foolishly; to babble.
* Dryden
Good-humoured, playful, typically spontaneous conversation.
To engage in banter or playful conversation.
To play or do something amusing.
To tease (someone) mildly.
* Washington Irving
* Charlotte Brontë
To joke about; to ridicule (a trait, habit, etc.).
* Chatham
To delude or trick; to play a prank upon.
* Daniel De Foe
(transitive, US, Southern and Western, colloquial) To challenge to a match.
As nouns the difference between prate and banter
is that prate is talk to little purpose; trifling talk; unmeaning loquacity while banter is good-humoured, playful, typically spontaneous conversation.As verbs the difference between prate and banter
is that prate is to talk much and to little purpose; to chatter; to be loquacious; to speak foolishly; to babble while banter is to engage in banter or playful conversation.prate
English
Derived terms
* prater * pratingly * prattle * prattlerVerb
(prat)- What nonsense would the fool, thy master, prate , / When thou, his knave, canst talk at such a rate!
Synonyms
* blabber, chatter, clack, gabble, gibber, maunder, palaver, piffle, prattle, twaddleReferences
* (etymology) prate'', in ''Compact Oxford English Dictionary . * (etymolohy) prate'', in ''The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language .Anagrams
* ----banter
English
Noun
(-)- It seemed like I'd have to listen to her playful banter for hours.
Verb
(en verb)- Hag-ridden by my own fancy all night, and then bantered on my haggard looks the next day.
- Mr. Sweeting was bantered about his stature—he was a little man, a mere boy in height and breadth compared with the athletic Malone
- If they banter' your regularity, order, and love of study, ' banter in return their neglect of them.
- We diverted ourselves with bantering several poor scholars with hopes of being at least his lordship's chaplain.