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Prattle vs Jabber - What's the difference?

prattle | jabber |

As verbs the difference between prattle and jabber

is that prattle is (ambitransitive) to speak incessantly and in a childish manner; to babble while jabber is (label) to talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense.

As nouns the difference between prattle and jabber

is that prattle is silly, childish, talk; babble while jabber is rapid or incoherent talk, with indistinct utterance; gibberish.

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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    jabber

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (label) To talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense.
  • (label) To utter rapidly or indistinctly; to gabble.
  • *, chapter=12
  • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=She had Lord James' collar in one big fist and she pounded the table with the other and talked a blue streak. Nobody could make out plain what she said, for she was mainly jabbering Swede lingo, but there was English enough, of a kind, to give us some idee.}}

    Noun

    (-)
  • Rapid or incoherent talk, with indistinct utterance; gibberish.
  • (Jonathan Swift)