Definitions
speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
Word origin
From Middle English praten; either inherited from Old English prætt or borrowed via Middle Dutch or Middle Low German praten (from Old Saxon *pratt), all from Proto-West Germanic *prattu, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *prattuz (“idle or boastful talk, deceit”), from Proto-Indo-European *bred- (“to wander, rove”).
Used in a sentence
“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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Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Talk pompously”5 letters
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