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What is the difference between prattle and beefsteak?

prattle | beefsteak |

As nouns the difference between prattle and beefsteak

is that prattle is silly, childish, talk; babble while beefsteak is a steak cut from beef cattle.

As a verb prattle

is {{context|ambitransitive|lang=en}} to speak incessantly and in a childish manner; to babble.

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)

    Anagrams

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    beefsteak

    Noun

  • A steak cut from beef cattle.
  • The beefsteak plant, also known as perilla and shiso.
  • A beefsteak tomato.
  • A beefsteak mushroom.
  • (archaic): A celebratory dinner, commonly held in New York between about 1870 and 1940 involving the consumption of enormous quantities of broiled steak and beer.