prate
English
Etymology
From Middle English praten; related to Dutch praten (“to talk, chat”), Low German praten, Danish prate, Swedish prata (“to talk, prate”), Faroese práta (“to talk, gossip”), Icelandic prata; all ultimately from Proto-Germanic *prattuz (“idle or boastful talk, deceit”), from Proto-Indo-European *brodno- (“to wander, rove”). Cognate with Polish bredzić (“to rave, jabber”), Latvian bradāt (“to talk nonsense”).
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -eɪt
Noun
prate (countable and uncountable, plural prates)
Derived terms
Derived terms
Translations
talk to little purpose
Verb
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- (transitive, intransitive) To talk much and to little purpose; to be loquacious; to speak foolishly.
- Synonyms: blabber; see also Thesaurus:prattle, Thesaurus:chatter
- Dryden
- What nonsense would the fool, thy master, prate, / When thou, his knave, canst talk at such a rate!
- 1999 February 19, Stephen Holden, “'Office Space': One Big Happy Family? No, Not at This Company”, in New York Times[1]:
- 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.
Translations
to talk much, to chatter
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References
- prate, in Compact Oxford English Dictionary.
- prate, in The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language.
Anagrams
- Peart, Petra, apert, apter, parte, pater, peart, petar, petra, preta, reapt, repat, retap, taper, trape, treap
Dutch
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
Verb
prate
Anagrams
Norwegian Bokmål
Pronunciation
Verb
prate (imperative prat, present tense prater, passive prates, simple past and past participle prata or pratet, present participle pratende)
Derived terms
References
- “prate” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
West Frisian
Pronunciation
Verb
prate
- to talk
Inflection
Weak class 1 | ||||
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infinitive | prate | |||
3rd singular past | prate | |||
past participle | praat, praten | |||
infinitive | prate | |||
long infinitive | praten | |||
gerund | praten n | |||
auxiliary | hawwe | |||
indicative | present tense | past tense | ||
1st singular | praat | prate | ||
2nd singular | praatst | pratest | ||
3rd singular | praat | prate | ||
plural | prate | praten | ||
imperative | praat | |||
participles | pratend | praat, praten |
Further reading
- “prate”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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