prittle-prattle

Noun

prittle-prattle (usually uncountable, plural prittle-prattles)

1. (colloquial, dated, derogatory, usually) Empty talk; prattle.
   • The Vindication of the Bishop of Duresme (Durham). The First Reason. (Chapter II, p. 24.) Archbishop John Bramhall.
     In criminal cases, where things are pretended to be done against penal laws, such as this, the proofs ought to be clearer than the noon day light. Here is nothing proved, but one...
   • W. E. Burton
     For the present, then, I forgive your impertinence! but I impignorate my promise to make sausages of your intestines if you ever bore me again with your pig-my prittle prattle.