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Prate vs Blab - What's the difference?

prate | blab |

As nouns the difference between prate and blab

is that prate is talk to little purpose; trifling talk; unmeaning loquacity while blab is one who blabs; a babbler; a telltale; a gossip or gossiper.

As verbs the difference between prate and blab

is that prate is to talk much and to little purpose; to chatter; to be loquacious; to speak foolishly; to babble while blab is (ambitransitive) to tell tales; to gossip without reserve or discretion.

prate

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Talk to little purpose; trifling talk; unmeaning loquacity.

    • Derived terms

    * prater * pratingly * prattle * prattler

    Verb

    (prat)
  • To talk much and to little purpose; to chatter; to be loquacious; to speak foolishly; to babble.
  • * Dryden
    • 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, twaddle

    References

    * (etymology) prate'', in ''Compact Oxford English Dictionary . * (etymolohy) prate'', in ''The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language .

    Anagrams

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    blab

    English

    Verb

  • (ambitransitive) To tell tales; to gossip without reserve or discretion.
  • * Tennyson
    • And yonder a vile physician blabbing / The case of his patient.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who blabs; a babbler; a telltale; a gossip or gossiper.

    • Related terms

    * blabber * blabbermouth * blabby * blubber