prattle

From prate +‎ -le (“early modern English frequentative suffix”). Compare Dutch pruttelen and Dutch preutelen (“to mutter”).

• Rhymes: -ætəl

prattle (third-person singular simple present prattles, present participle prattling, simple past and past participle prattled)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To speak incessantly and in a childish manner; to babble.

• prattler
• prattlingly

prattle (uncountable)

1. Silly, childish talk; babble.
   • c. 1603, William Shakespeare, Othello, the Moor of Venice, Act I, scene I, line 27

     Mere prattle without practice is all his soldiership.

• See also Thesaurus:nonsense
• See also Thesaurus:chatter
• See also Thesaurus:prattle

• prattle, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition (2000)
• “prattle” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2019.

• Platter, partlet, platter