Prattle vs Gabble - What's the difference?
prattle | gabble |
(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
To talk fast, idly, foolishly, or without meaning.
* 1611 , William Shakespeare, The Tempest , Act I, scene II :
* 1900 , , The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg , ch. 4:
* 2013 , . Melbourne, Australia: The Text Publishing Company. chapter 16. p. 144.
To utter inarticulate sounds with rapidity.
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
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Verb
(prattl)Derived terms
* prattler * prattlinglyNoun
(-)- Mere prattle without practice is all his soldiership.
Synonyms
* See also * See alsoReferences
* prattle'', in ''The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition (2000)Anagrams
* *gabble
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Verb
(en-verb)- 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
- Then he fell to gabbling strange and dreadful things which were not clearly understandable.
- 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?
- gabbling fowls
- (Dryden)