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What is the difference between prattle and brawl?

prattle | brawl |

As verbs the difference between prattle and brawl

is that prattle is {{context|ambitransitive|lang=en}} to speak incessantly and in a childish manner; to babble while brawl is to engage in a brawl; to fight or quarrel.

As nouns the difference between prattle and brawl

is that prattle is silly, childish, talk; babble while brawl is a fight, usually with a huge amount of people involved.

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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    brawl

    English

    (wikipedia brawl)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A fight, usually with a large number of people involved.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To engage in a brawl; to fight or quarrel.
  • To complain loudly; to scold.
  • To make a loud confused noise, as the water of a rapid stream running over stones.
  • * Wordsworth
    • where the brook brawls along the painful road