prateverb [ I ]
uk/preɪt/us/preɪt/also prate on old-fashionedto talk stupidly, or about things that are not important, for a long time:
Inevitably there's some caller prating on about the decline in moral standards.
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Ways of talking
- -mouthed
- babel
- blab
- blather
- croon
- declamatory
- drone
- drone on
- hold the floor idiom
- lyrical
- meanderings
- rabbit
- rabbit on
- sink to a whisper idiom
- tattle
- telegrammatic
- throw
- waffle
- whisper
- yap
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