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Prattle vs Brattle - What's the difference?

prattle | brattle |

As verbs the difference between prattle and brattle

is that prattle is to speak incessantly and in a childish manner; to babble while brattle is to rattle; to make a scampering noise.

As a noun prattle

is silly, childish, talk; 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

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    References

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

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    brattle

    English

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To rattle; to make a scampering noise
  • :*1972': Him too I hate, the same as I hate these brainless budding trees, these '''brattling birds. — John Gardner, ''Grendel (London 1972, p. 6)

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