prittle-prattle
- noun
- /ˈprɪtəlˌprætəl/
- Archaic
- The meeting dissolved into prittle-prattle about office gossip.
Examples
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She tries to avoid prittle-prattle and prefers meaningful conversation.
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He was annoyed by the constant prittle-prattle from his younger siblings.
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Their conversation was just prittle-prattle.
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I can't stand all this prittle-prattle!
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He was annoyed by the constant prittle-prattle from his younger siblings.
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She tries to avoid prittle-prattle and prefers meaningful conversation.
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The meeting dissolved into prittle-prattle about office gossip.
Synonyms
118
3.2
Informal conversation about other people that may not be true
83
2.1
Polite short talk about simple topics like the weather
17
2.8
Short friendly talk about unimportant things
10
9.9
Silly talk that is not true
3
9.7
A lot of noisy talking about not important things
2
5.8
Casual talk about small, unimportant things, often gossip
2
9.7
Unimportant repeating talk that gives no useful information
1
9.9
Silly, unimportant talk that wastes time
1
9.5
Light talk between people with little meaning
1
8.9
Silly or unimportant talk that wastes time
1
9.9
Talk that is silly or not important
1
9.9
Loud, silly talk that has no useful meaning
1
8.4
Light, silly talk about other people
1
9.9
Untrue or silly talk that is not important
1
9.9
Talk that is useless and does not help
1
7.9
Fast, unclear talk that is hard to understand
Light friendly talk about small unimportant things, often gossip
Unclear or silly talk without any real meaning
Continuous trivial talk that says nothing important
Antonyms
How Trivial
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Prittle-prattle comes from the older word prattle, which is a copy of 'babble', the silly sounds babies make. The repeated form shows a lot of small, unimportant talk, so prittle-prattle means 'trivial or foolish talk'.