Reverse Dictionary: PRATTLE

PRATTLE, PRATTLING

NOUNS
1529 ► talk, chatter, prattle; esp. empty or trifling talk about trivial matters; petty gossip → TITTLE-TATTLE 
1535 ► an old song; silly prattle; idle tale, trick → CANTILENE → obs.
1787 ► talk, prattle; pert, insolent language → GASH → Sc.
1790 ► the act of gabbing or talking; conversation, prattle, talk, twaddle → GAB 
1812 ► small talk; petty or childish talk, chatter; continuous talk or prattle → TALKEE-TALKEE → contemptuous
1813 ► prattle, pert language → GASH → Sc.
1835 ► idle talk, prattle, chattering → BAVARDAGE 
1868 ► prattle, chatter → YAFF → Sc.
1878 ► idle talk, prattle → NAFFING → Sc.
1885 ► small talk; petty or childish talk, chatter; continuous talk or prattle → TALKEE → colloq.
1898 ► a prattling sound; a loud noise; a burst of laughter → GALAFER → GALLAFER → Eng. dial.
1903 ► frivolous talk or prattle; an angry dispute about a trifle → NAFF → Sc. (Bk.)
1913 ► prattle, chatter → PARTLE → Sc.


NOUNS, PERSON
1440 ► a talker, a prattler → CARPER → obs.
1605 ► a talkative person; a prattler → JACKDAW → contemptuous
1671 ► a chatterbox; a talkative person; a prattler, a chatterer → PRATTLE-BOX → obs.
1700 ► a talkative person, a chatterer, a prattler → TONGUE-PAD → Eng. dial. & sl.
1792 ► a person who talks too much; an indiscreet talkative person; a prattler; a gossip → GABBER 
1818 ► a pert or gossiping person, an impertinent, ill-natured fellow, a forward, prattling girl → NASH-GAB → Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
1895 ► a person who talks at length or in an idle or trivial manner; a chatterer, a prattler → TWITTERER
1923 ► a pert or voluble chatterer; a prattling, forward girl → GAB-NASH → Sc.
1997 ► a loudmouth; a prattler; a talkative person; a windbag → GABBLEBLOOTER → Irish sl. (Bk.)


VERBS
1570 ► to talk rapidly and indistinctly or unintelligibly; to speak volubly and with little sense; to chatter, to gabble, to prattle → JABBLE 
1577 ► to talk volubly, inarticulately, and incoherently; to chatter, to prattle; also, to read so fast as to be unintelligible → GABBLE 
1577 ► to express with gaggling or cackling; to babble, to prattle → GAGGLE → obs.
1773 ► to talk freely or loquaciously; to converse, to chatter, to prattle → GASH → Sc.
1825 ► to chatter, to ramble on in a confused or foolish manner; to prattle, to talk interminably → YATTER → Sc.
1825 ► to ramble on in a confused or foolish manner; to prattle, to talk interminably → YATTER-YATTER → Sc.
1865 ► to chatter like a parrot; to talk incessantly or inconsequentially; to prattle → POLL-PARROT
1911 ► to talk nonsense; to prattle, to chatter → BLETHER → Sc. (Bk.)
1999 ► to prattle on aimlessly → WAFFLE ON → Aust. sl. (Bk.)