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Prattle vs Gabble - What's the difference?

prattle | gabble |

As verbs the difference between prattle and gabble

is that prattle is (ambitransitive) to speak incessantly and in a childish manner; to babble while gabble is to talk fast, idly, foolishly, or without meaning.

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

    * See also * See also

    References

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

    Anagrams

    * *

    gabble

    English

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To talk fast, idly, foolishly, or without meaning.
  • * 1611 , William Shakespeare, The Tempest , Act I, scene II :
  • I pitied thee, took pains to make thee speak, taught thee each hour one thing or other; when thou didst not, savage, know thine own meaning, but wouldst gabble like a thing most brutish
  • * 1900 , , The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg , ch. 4:
  • Then he fell to gabbling strange and dreadful things which were not clearly understandable.
  • * 2013 , . Melbourne, Australia: The Text Publishing Company. chapter 16. p. 144.
  • Does she regard him simply as a workman come to do a job for her, someone whom she need never lay eyes on again; or is she gabbling to hide discomfiture?
  • To utter inarticulate sounds with rapidity.
  • gabbling fowls
    (Dryden)

    Synonyms

    * (l)

    Synonyms

    * See also English reporting verbs