Word Meanings - PRITTLE-PRATTLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Empty talk; trifling loquacity; prattle; -- used in contempt or ridicule. Abp. Bramhall.

Related words: (words related to PRITTLE-PRATTLE)

• RIDICULER
  One who ridicules.
• CONTEMPTIBLY
  In a contemptible manner.
• CONTEMPTUOUSLY
  In a contemptuous manner; with scorn or disdain; despitefully. The apostles and most eminent Christians were poor, and used contemptuously. Jer. Taylor.
• CONTEMPTUOUS
  Manifecting or expressing contempt or disdain; scornful; haughty; insolent; disdainful. A proud, contemptious behavior. Hammond. Savage invectiveand contemptuous sarcasm. Macaulay. Rome . . . entertained the most contemptuous opinion of the Jews.
• EMPTY
  æmtig, æmetig, fr. æmta, æmetta, quiet, leisure, rest; of uncertain 1. Containing nothing; not holding or having anything within; void of contents or appropriate contents; not filled; -- said of an inclosure, as a box, room, house, etc.; as,
• LOQUACITY
  The habit or practice of talking continually or excessively; inclination to talk too much; talkativeness; garrulity. Too great loquacity and too great taciturnity by fits. Arbuthnot.
• CONTEMPT
  Disobedience of the rules, orders, or process of a court of justice, or of rules or orders of a legislative body; disorderly, contemptuous, or insolent language or behavior in presence of a court, tending to disturb its proceedings, or impair the
• CONTEMPTIBLENESS
  The state or quality of being contemptible, or of being despised.
• TRIFLE
  trifle, probably the same word as F. truffe truffle, the word being 1. A thing of very little value or importance; a paltry, or trivial, affair. With such poor trifles playing. Drayton. Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmation strong
• TRIFLORAL; TRIFLOROUS
  Three-flowered; having or bearing three flowers; as, a triflorous peduncle.
• TRIFLING
  Being of small value or importance; trivial; paltry; as, a trifling debt; a trifling affair. -- Tri"fling*ly, adv. -- Tri"fling*ness, n.
• EMPTYING
  The lees of beer, cider, etc.; yeast. (more info) 1. The act of making empty. Shak. 2. pl.
• TRIFLER
  One who trifles. Waterland.
• 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:
• TRIFLUCTUATION
  A concurrence of three waves. "A trifluctuation of evils." Sir T. Browne.
• CONTEMPTIBLE
  1. Worthy of contempt; deserving of scorn or disdain; mean; vile; despicable. Milton. The arguments of tyranny are ascontemptible as its force is dreadful. Burke. 2. Despised; scorned; neglected; abject. Locke. 3. Insolent; scornful; contemptuous.
• RIDICULE
  1. An object of sport or laughter; a laughingstock; a laughing matter. was so miserably ignorant, that his deficiencies made him the ridicule of his contemporaries. Buckle. To the people . . . but a trifle, to the king but a ridicule. Foxe. 2.
• CONTEMPTUOUSNESS
  Disposition to or manifestion of contempt; insolence; haughtiness.
• PRATTLEMENT
  Prattle. Jeffrey.
• CONTEMPTIBILITY
  The quality of being contemptible; contemptibleness. Speed.
• OVEREMPTY
  To make too empty; to exhaust. Carew.
• KEMP; KEMPTY
  Coarse, rough hair wool or fur, injuring its quality.
• PRITTLE-PRATTLE
  Empty talk; trifling loquacity; prattle; -- used in contempt or ridicule. Abp. Bramhall.