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.