Prattle vs Jabber - What's the difference?
prattle | jabber |
(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
(label) To talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense.
(label) To utter rapidly or indistinctly; to gabble.
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, title= Rapid or incoherent talk, with indistinct utterance; gibberish.
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)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
* *jabber
English
Verb
(en verb)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
(-)- (Jonathan Swift)