Prattle vs Chatty - What's the difference?
prattle | chatty |
(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
(informal) Of a person, chatting a lot or fond of chatting.
(informal) Of a text or speech, expressed in a conversational style.
(WWI slang) Infested with chats, ie, lice
As a verb prattle
is (ambitransitive) to speak incessantly and in a childish manner; to babble.As a noun prattle
is silly, childish, talk; babble.As an adjective chatty is
(informal) of a person, chatting a lot or fond of chatting.prattle
English
Verb
(prattl)Derived terms
* prattler * prattlinglyNoun
(-)- Mere prattle without practice is all his soldiership.