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prattles

prattles is the third-person singular simple present indicative of prattle.

Meaning of prattle

Verb

prattle (third-person singular simple present prattles, present participle prattling, simple past and past participle prattled)

  1. (ambitransitive) To speak incessantly and in an inconsequential or childish manner; to babble.
    • And as E. Rushmore Coglan prattled of this little planet I thought with glee of a great almost-cosmopolite who wrote for the whole world and dedicated himself to Bombay.1906, O. Henry, A Cosmopolite in a Café

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Questions about prattles

What is prattles the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Prattles is the third-person singular simple present indicative of prattle.

Words near prattles in the dictionary

  1. prattled
  2. prattlement
  3. prattlements
  4. prattler
  5. prattlers
  6. prattles
  7. prattlesome
  8. prattling
  9. prattlingly
  10. prattlings
  11. pratts

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