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Prattle vs Prattery - What's the difference?

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Prattle is a related term of prattery.


As nouns the difference between prattle and prattery

is that prattle is silly, childish, talk; babble while prattery is foolishness or foolish behaviour.

As a verb prattle

is (ambitransitive) to speak incessantly and in a childish manner; to 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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    prattery

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • Foolishness or foolish behaviour.
  • * 2004. March 13, “Ian G Batten” (username), “ Re: haddock”, in uk.misc, Usenet ,
    • If an obviously egomanic twit makes wonderful music, should his prattery disqualify him?
  • *2004. July 20, Alastair Down, The Racing Post'' (London, England), article ''The Open and Shut Case of the Missing Hub-Caps.
  • *:...Paying sportsmen obscene sums of money does not necessarily mean they behave badly. Unlike football, there seems to be no correlation between fat cattery and prattery .
  • *2008. Jan 26, Simon Barnes, Tehran Times'', article ''Keep Class Out of it. In sport you are either good enough, or you’re not ,
  • *:Marcus Willis... had been driving the coaches at the Lawn Tennis Association to distraction, and with this latest bit of prattery finally pushed his luck too far.
  • * 1821. March, Sarah Spencer Lady Lyttelton. Correspondence of Sarah Spencer Lady Lyttelton 1787-1870 (Kessinger Publishing, 2006), page 234
    • The Prattery are just come to town.
  • *1871. March 18, Edwin Norris, in ''The Correspondence of William Henry Fox Talbot, Glasgow University[http://foxtalbot.dmu.ac.uk/project/project.html]
    • ...We have hunutu muttabbiltu, which must be instruments musical, see hunutu in my p. 291. I derive it from the viol, or prattery, your nabala.

    Related terms

    * prattle * prattler