Pronunciations (2)
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/pɹeɪt/
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pɹeɪt
Noun
Talk to little purpose; trifling talk; unmeaningful loquacity.
Usage- Countable
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Verb
To talk much and to little purpose; to be loquacious; to speak foolishly.
Usage- Transitive or intransitive
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Thou ſowre and firme-ſet Earth / Heare not my ſteps, which they may walke, for feare / Thy very ſtones prate of my where-about, / And take the preſent horror from the time, / Which now ſutes with it.
What nonsense would the fool, thy master, prate, / When thou, his knave, canst talk at such a rate!
Urania speaks with darken’d brow: ‘Thou pratest here where thou art least; This faith has many a purer priest, And many an abler voice than thou: […]’
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They are not so chic, these kids. They don’t haunt press receptions or opening nights; they don’t pose as street punks in the style of Bruce Springsteen, or prate of rock & Rimbaud.
Puffed up with fake jocularity, Bill epitomizes the smiley, buck-passing, back-stabbing, passive-aggressive office dictator who fears and despises his underlings while prating nauseatingly about everybody being one big happy family.
Noun
idle or foolish and irrelevant talk
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Verb
speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly