Word Meanings - PITTLE-PATTLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To talk unmeaningly; to chatter or prattle. Latimer.
Related words: (words related to PITTLE-PATTLE)
- PRATTLE
To talk much and idly; to prate; hence, to talk lightly and artlessly, like a child; to utter child's talk. (more info) Etym: - CHATTERATION
The act or habit of chattering. - CHATTERING
The act or habit of talking idly or rapidly, or of making inarticulate sounds; the sounds so made; noise made by the collision of the teeth; chatter. - CHATTER
Etym: 1. To utter sounds which somewhat resemble language, but are inarticulate and indistinct. The jaw makes answer, as the magpie chatters. Wordsworth. 2. To talk idly, carelessly, or with undue rapidity; to jabber; to prate. To tame a shrew, - CHATTERER
A bird of the family Ampelidæ -- so called from its monotonous note. The Bohemion chatterer inhabits the arctic regions of both continents. In America the cedar bird is a more common species. See Bohemian chatterer, and Cedar bird. (more info) - LATIMER
An interpreter. Coke. - CHATTER MARK
One of the fine undulations or ripples which are formed on the surface of work by a cutting tool which chatters. A short crack on a rock surface planed smooth by a glacier. - PRATTLEMENT
Prattle. Jeffrey. - PRATTLER
One who prattles. Herbert. - PRITTLE-PRATTLE
Empty talk; trifling loquacity; prattle; -- used in contempt or ridicule. Abp. Bramhall.