Found 2 items, similar to prate.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: prate prate n : idle or foolish and irrelevant talk [syn: prattle, idle talk , blether, chin music] prate v : speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly [syn: chatter, piffle, palaver, tittle-tattle, twaddle, clack, maunder, prattle, blab, gibber, tattle, blabber, gabble]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Prate Prate \Prate\, n. [Akin to LG. & D. praat, Sw. prat.] Talk to little purpose; trifling talk; unmeaning loquacity. [1913 Webster] Sick of tops, and poetry, and prate. --Pope. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] To prate and talk for life and honor. --Shak. [1913 Webster] And make a fool presume to prate of love. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] Prate \Prate\, v. t. To utter foolishly; to speak without reason or purpose; to chatter, or babble. [1913 Webster] What nonsense would the fool, thy master, prate, When thou, his knave, canst talk at such a rate ! --Dryden. [1913 Webster]