prate

prate
v
1. palaver, blab, bleat, Inf. gab; gush, Inf. spout, Sl. run off or on at the mouth; gossip, buzz, tell tales, repeat everything one hears; be loquacious or talkative, ramble, maunder.
2. babble, twaddle, Brit. twattle, blather, drivel; talk nonsense, Inf. talk through one's hat; jabber, gibber, Sl. gibber-jabber, jargon; chatter, chipper, prattle, cackle; chitchat, chitter-chatter, chaffer, bandy words; talk idly, Sl. shoot the breeze, Sl. gas, Sl. bull.
n
3. palaver, palaverment, blabbing, bleating, Inf. gabbing; gushing, Inf. spouting, Sl. running off or on at the mouth; gossiping, buzzing, repeating everything one hears; loquacity, talkativeness, rambling, maundering.
4. babble, babbling, babblement, prattle, prattling; gibber, gibbering, gibberish, jabber, jabbering, Jabber-wocky, Sl. gibber-jabbering; chatter, chattering, cackle, cackling; twaddle, twaddling, Brit. twattle, Brit. twattling; blather, blathering, drivel, driveling; nonsense, moonshine, Fr. bavardage. gobbledegook, hocus-pocus, mumbo jumbo, abracadabra; humbug, flummery, Sl. bunk, rubbish, tommyrot, Inf. rot, Sl. garbage, Sl. horsefeathers; balderdash, hogwash, stuff and nonsense, Inf. bosh, Brit. Si. tosh, fudge, foolishness, rigmarole or rigamarole; poppycock, Inf. fiddle-faddle, Inf. piffle, Inf. kibosh, Inf. flapdoodle; small talk, Anglo-Indian bukh, chitchat, chitchatting, chit-ter-chatter, chitter-chattering; gossip, Inf. scuttlebutt, buzz, idle talk, Inf. gab, Sl. bull; palaver, claptrap, Sl. hot air, Sl. gas.

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