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To utter as prattle; to babble; as, to prattle treason. Addison.

Prattle. [R.] Jeffrey.

One who prattles. Herbert.

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

Idle talk; senseless prattle; gabble; twaddle. "This is mere moral babble." Milton.

Much talking; prattle; chatter. Byron.

To talk in a silly manner; to prattle. Johnson.

One who prattles, or tells tales; a tattler.

To talk; to speak; to prattle. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Sounds like those of a magpie or monkey; idle talk; rapid, thoughtless talk; jabber; prattle. Your words are but idle and empty chatter. Longfellow.

Familiar or trifling talk; prattle.

Continual or importunate talk; prattle; prating. Whose chief intent is to vaunt his spiritual clack. South. Clack box (Mach.), the box or chamber in which a clack valve works. -- Clack dish, a dish with a movable lid, formerly carried by beggars, who clacked the lid to attract notice. Shak. Clack door (Mining), remova…

Frivolous or nonsensical talk; prattle; chattering. [Scot. & North of Eng.] Emmy found herself entirely at a loss in the midst of their clavers. Thackeray.

To talk familiarly together; to chat; to prattle. I shall not ask Jean Jaques Rousseau If birds confabulate or no. Cowper.

To talk unmeaningly; to chatter or prattle. [R.] Latimer.

A loquacious person, male or female; a prattler; a babbler; also, a boaster; a braggart; -- used in contempt or reproach. Jer. Taylor.

Idle, trifling talk; empty prattle. Arbuthnot.

To talk a weak and silly manner, like one whose faculties are decayed; to prate; to prattle. Stanyhurst.