Prattle vs Babbling - What's the difference?
prattle | babbling |
(ambitransitive) To speak incessantly and in a childish manner; to babble.
Silly, childish, talk; babble.
* c. 1603 , William Shakespeare, Othello, the Moor of Venice , Act I, scene I, line 27
(uncountable) a stage in child language acquisition, during which an infant appears to be experimenting with uttering sounds of language, but not yet producing any recognizable words
(countable) sounds produced by infant during the babbling period
As verbs the difference between prattle and babbling
is that prattle is (ambitransitive) to speak incessantly and in a childish manner; to babble while babbling is .As nouns the difference between prattle and babbling
is that prattle is silly, childish, talk; babble while babbling is (uncountable) a stage in child language acquisition, during which an infant appears to be experimenting with uttering sounds of language, but not yet producing any recognizable words.prattle
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Verb
(prattl)Derived terms
* prattler * prattlinglyNoun
(-)- Mere prattle without practice is all his soldiership.