Wednesday, September 24, 2008

PRATTLE

to babble meaninglessly

to talk in an empty manner

/idle or foolish and irrelevant talk
SYN - blather, chin music, idle talk, prate

speak rapidly and incessantly (about unimportant matters)
SYN - blab, chatter, clack, gabble, gibber, palaver, piffle, tattle, twaddle

"he could feel his competitors get an edge on him, studying away in some corner of the university while he was stuck here engaged in this prattle."

"As he did his smile and nod to the prattle of the person he was standing next too, he thought about having sex with the girl across the room."

"He knew the silliness of it all, how you were expected to endure a certain amount of prattle that neither person liked and then ask the person if they want to come home with you."

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