Hypertext Webster Gateway: "prate"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Prate \Prate\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Prated}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Prating}.] [Akin to LG. & D. praten, Dan. prate, Sw. & Icel.
prata.]
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Prate \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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Prate \Prate\, n. [Akin to LG. & D. praat, Sw. prat.]
Talk to little purpose; trifling talk; unmeaning loquacity.
Sick of tops, and poetry, and prate. --Pope.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
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}]
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