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Definition of prate:
Synonyms:
patter, jabber, chaffer, sing, twaddle, babble out, chat, chin music, murmur, rap, prattle, rattle, sweet-talk, schmooze, piffle, gas, visit, blarney, clack, mutter, shoot the breeze, click, blabber, jaw, blather, let the cat out of the bag, blether, natter, confabulate, mumble, idle talk, tittle-tattle, gab, waffle, confab, inveigle, talk through your hat, blab out, babble, claver, chit-chat, spiel, maunder, gabble, clatter, chin, wheedle, coax, go on, peach, gibber, blurt out, twitter, converse, blab, chew the fat, cluck, kibitz, talk, cajole, tattle, yak, gossip, blurt, brattle, palaver, words, run off at the mouth, spill the beans, chatter, cackle, run on, chitchat, mussitate, claver.
Usage examples:
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Up and angry with my mayds for letting in watermen, and I know not who, anybody that they are acquainted with, into my kitchen to talk and prate with them, which I will not endure.
- "Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete Transcribed From The Shorthand Manuscript In The Pepysian Library Magdalene College Cambridge By The Rev. Mynors Bright", Samuel Pepys Commentator: Lord Braybrooke. -
I continued: You prate of respect due the Majesty.
- "Secret Memoirs: The Story of Louise, Crown Princess", Henry W. Fischer. -
If our desertion turns this people from us, they will become the prey of our recent enemies, and if that happens we can prate about the Treaty of Paris as much as we like.
- "With the "Die-Hards" in Siberia", John Ward.