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What is the difference between prattle and pooh-pooh?

prattle | pooh-pooh |

As verbs the difference between prattle and pooh-pooh

is that prattle is to speak incessantly and in a childish manner; to babble while pooh-pooh is to dismiss idly, with derision or contempt.

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

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    pooh-pooh

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To dismiss idly, with derision or contempt.
  • *1848 , , Dombey and Son , ch. 58,
  • *:When he went abroad with Dombey and was chasing that vagabond up and down France, J. Bagstock would have pooh-pooh'd' you—would have ' pooh-pooh'd you, Sir, by the Lord!
  • *c1861 , , Roundabout Papers , ch. 3,
  • *:In England, until very late days, we have been accustomed rather to pooh-pooh national Orders, to vote ribbons and crosses tinsel gewgaws, foolish foreign ornaments, and so forth.
  • *2001 , London Review of Books , 21 June,
  • *:Pooh-poohing the IPCC's science has been one line of attack by Bush's backers.
  • *2004 , London Review of Books , 23 Sep.,
  • *:Clinton haters will pooh-pooh all of these acknowledgements as the index of a compulsive sociability that knows no limits and upholds no standards, a psychic necessity we should not make into a moral virtue.
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