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Prattle vs Gossip - What's the difference?

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As verbs the difference between prattle and gossip

is that prattle is to speak incessantly and in a childish manner; to babble while gossip is to talk about someone else's private or personal business, especially in a way that spreads the information.

As nouns the difference between prattle and gossip

is that prattle is silly, childish, talk; babble while gossip is someone who likes to talk about someone else’s private or personal business.

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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    gossip

    English

    (wikipedia gossip)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Someone who likes to talk about someone else’s private or personal business.
  • Idle talk about someone’s private or personal matters, especially someone not present.
  • *
  • *:"I ought to arise and go forth with timbrels and with dances; but, do you know, I am not inclined to revels? There has been a little—just a very little bit too much festivity so far …. Not that I don't adore dinners and gossip and dances; not that I do not love to pervade bright and glittering places."
  • A genre in contemporary media, usually focused on the personal affairs of celebrities.
  • *
  • *:Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence. She devoured with more avidity than she had her food those pretentiously phrased chronicles of the snobocracydistilling therefrom an acid envy that robbed her napoleon of all its savour.
  • (lb) A sponsor; a godfather or godmother.
  • *(John Selden) (1584-1654)
  • *:Should a great lady that was invited to be a gossip , in her place send her kitchen maid, 'twould be ill taken.

    • Synonyms

    * scuttle-butt * See also

    Verb

  • To talk about someone else's private or personal business, especially in a way that spreads the information.
  • To talk idly.

    • Synonyms

    * (sense, talk about someone else's private or personal business) blab, talk out of turn, tell tales out of school

    References

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