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Noun
S:
(n)
prate
,
prattle
,
idle talk
,
blether
,
chin music
(idle or foolish and irrelevant talk)
Verb
S:
(v)
chatter
,
piffle
,
palaver
,
prate
,
tittle-tattle
,
twaddle
,
clack
,
maunder
,
prattle
,
blab
,
gibber
,
tattle
,
blabber
,
gabble
(speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly)
direct troponym
/
full troponym
direct hypernym
/
inherited hypernym
/
sister term
derivationally related form
W:
(n)
chatter
[Related to:
chatter
] (noisy talk)
W:
(n)
chatterer
[Related to:
chatter
] (an obnoxious and foolish and loquacious talker)
W:
(n)
piffle
[Related to:
piffle
] (trivial nonsense)
W:
(n)
palaver
[Related to:
palaver
] (loud and confused and empty talk)
"mere rhetoric"
W:
(n)
prater
[Related to:
prate
] (an obnoxious and foolish and loquacious talker)
W:
(n)
prate
[Related to:
prate
] (idle or foolish and irrelevant talk)
W:
(n)
tittle-tattle
[Related to:
tittle-tattle
] (light informal conversation for social occasions)
W:
(n)
twaddler
[Related to:
twaddle
] (someone who twaddles; someone who writes or talks twaddle)
W:
(n)
twaddle
[Related to:
twaddle
] (pretentious or silly talk or writing)
W:
(n)
prattler
[Related to:
prattle
] (someone who speaks in a childish way)
W:
(n)
prattle
[Related to:
prattle
] (idle or foolish and irrelevant talk)
W:
(n)
blabber
[Related to:
blabber
] (one who reveals confidential information in return for money)
W:
(n)
gabble
[Related to:
gabble
] (rapid and indistinct speech)
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