to prattle on about something

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• prattle — [[t]præ̱t(ə)l[/t]] prattles, prattling, prattled VERB (disapproval) If you say that someone prattles on about something, you are criticizing them because they are talking a great deal without saying anything important. [INFORMAL] [V on/away about …   English dictionary

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• prat·tle — /ˈprætl̩/ verb, prattles, prattled, prattling [no obj] : to talk for very long about something that is not important or interesting They prattled on into the night, discussing school, music, and friends. prattle noun [noncount] I was tired of… …   Useful english dictionary

• witter — [[t]wɪ̱tə(r)[/t]] witters, wittering, wittered VERB (disapproval) If you say that someone is wittering about something, you mean that they are talking a lot about things that you think are silly and boring. [BRIT, INFORMAL] [V about n] They just… …   English dictionary

• rattle on — PHRASAL VERB (disapproval) When you say that someone rattles on about something, you mean that they talk about it for a long time in a way that annoys you. [V P about n] I heard my mother rattling on and on about the day I get married, what I… …   English dictionary

• twitter — [[t]twɪ̱tə(r)[/t]] twitters, twittering, twittered 1) VERB When birds twitter, they make a lot of short high pitched sounds. There were birds twittering in the eucalyptus trees. [V ing] ...a tree filled with twittering birds. N UNCOUNT: usu N of… …   English dictionary

• speak — [OE] The usual Old English word for ‘speak’ was sprecan, which has close living relatives in German sprechen and Dutch spreken. Specan, the ancestor of modern English speak, did not appear until around the year 1000, but already by the 12th… …   The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

• speak — [OE] The usual Old English word for ‘speak’ was sprecan, which has close living relatives in German sprechen and Dutch spreken. Specan, the ancestor of modern English speak, did not appear until around the year 1000, but already by the 12th… …   Word origins

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