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prattlingverbpresent participle of prattle to engage in casual or rambling conversationspent an hour on the phone prattling on about nothing in particular babbling, blabbing, cackling, chaffering(British), chattering, chatting, chinning(slang), conversing, gabbing, gabbling, gassing, jabbering, jawing, kibitzing(also kibbitzing), nattering, palavering, pattering, prating, rapping, rattling, running on, schmoozing(or shmoozing), talking, twittering, visiting gossiping, tattlingdescanting, discussing, expatiatingyakking(also yacking), yammering, yapping blowing smoke, chewing the fat(also chewing the rag), shooting the breeze, talking a blue streak to speak rapidly, inarticulately, and usually unintelligiblystop prattling and calmly tell us the news babbling, bumbling, chattering, chatting, driveling(or drivelling), drooling, gabbling, gibbering, jabbering, sputtering blabbering, blathering, bleating, blithering, gabbing, jangling, jawing, pattering, prating, rattling, running on, smattering, tittle-tattling, trolling, yakking(also yacking)chuntering(British), maundering, mouthing, mumbling, murmuring, mutteringstammering, stutteringscreeching, shouting, shrieking articulating, enunciating, pronouncing |