prate
verb (used without object)
to talk excessively and pointlessly; babble.
prater
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a word derived from
prate.
Example Sentences
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And yet--the prater Vanity once more, you see: but I will let him speak out this time.
From Jane Talbot by Charles Brockden Brown
You would be of little account if you weren't a prater.
From Dona Perfecta by Mary J. (Mary Jane) Serrano
The dear prater went on—My guardian called me aside, when tea was over.
From The History of Sir Charles Grandison, Volume 4 (of 7) by Samuel Richardson
Can none be in your company, Babbalanja, but you must perforce make them hob-a-nob with that old prater?
From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II by Herman Melville
"Ambrose Dixon, a caulker by profession," "often in question for his Quaking profession," "a prater of nonsense," "stands arrested, and the broad arrow at his door, but bids defiance."
From History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia by Charles Campbell
