prate /ˈpret/
(vi.)嘮嘮叨叨的講,閒聊,空談(vt.)瞎說嘮叨,多嘴,無聊話
Prate v. i. [imp. & p. p. Prated; p. pr. & vb. n. Prating.] To talk much and to little purpose; to be loquacious; to speak foolishly; to babble.
To prate and talk for life and honor. --Shak.
And make a fool presume to prate of love. --Dryden.
Prate, v. t. To utter foolishly; to speak without reason or purpose; to chatter, or babble.
What nonsense would the fool, thy master, prate,
When thou, his knave, canst talk at such a rate ! --Dryden.
Prate, n. Talk to little purpose; trifling talk; unmeaning loquacity.
Sick of tops, and poetry, and prate. --Pope.
◄ ►
prate
n : idle or foolish and irrelevant talk [syn: prattle, idle
talk, blether, chin music]
v : speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
[syn: chatter, piffle, palaver, tittle-tattle, twaddle,
clack, maunder, prattle, blab, gibber, tattle,
blabber, gabble]