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prattlement

noun

Etymology

From prattle + -ment.

  1. derived from *bred-✻ — “to wander, rove”
  2. derived from *prattuz✻ — “idle or boastful talk, deceit”
  3. derived from *prattu✻
  4. derived from *pratt✻
  5. derived from praten
  6. inherited from prætt
  7. inherited from praten
  8. suffixed as prattle — “prate + le”
  9. suffixed as prattlement — “prattle + ment”

Definitions

  1. prattle

    prattle; childish chatter

    • April 1805, Francis Jeffrey, "The Lay of the Last Minstrel", in Edinburgh Review she had never listened to the prattlement of the river and mountain spirits

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for prattlement. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA