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Tattle vs Prattle - What's the difference?

tattle | prattle |

As verbs the difference between tattle and prattle

is that tattle is (pejorative) to report others' wrongdoings or violations; to tell on somebody; to gossip or to disclose incriminating information while prattle is (ambitransitive) to speak incessantly and in a childish manner; to babble.

As nouns the difference between tattle and prattle

is that tattle is a tattletale while prattle is silly, childish, talk; babble.

tattle

English

Verb

  • (pejorative) To report others' wrongdoings or violations; to tell on somebody; to gossip or to disclose incriminating information.
  • To chatter.
  • * 1599 ,
    • BEATRICE. He were an excellent man that were made just in the mid-way between him and Benedick: the one is too like an image, and says nothing; and the other too like my lady's eldest son, evermore tattling .
  • * Dryden
    • the tattling quality of age, which is always narrative

    Synonyms

    * blow the whistle, rat on, sing, snitch, squeal * gossip; see also

    Noun

    (-)
  • A tattletale.
  • Gossip; idle talk.

    • Related terms

    * tattletale

    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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