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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What! a speaker is but a prater; a rhyme is but a ballad.
From How to be Happy Though Married Being a Handbook to Marriage by Edward John Hardy
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
And, but that I would not be thought a prater, I could tell you he were a translator.
From The Poetaster by Ben Jonson
“Y’ are a prater, Bennet, a talker, a babbler; your mouth is wider than your two ears.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 8 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
Nor again does Free-Will mean lawless in the sense of irrational; or causeless, in the sense of having no motive: "contra legem," "præter legem" is not "contra rationem," "prater rationem."
From The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1 by Various
