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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈpɹætəl/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-prattle.wav [Southern-England]
Rhymes: -ætəl Etymology: From prate + -le (early modern English frequentative suffix). Compare Dutch pruttelen and Dutch preutelen (“to mutter”). Etymology templates: {{suf|en|prate|le|id2=frequentative|pos2=early modern English frequentative suffix}} prate + -le (early modern English frequentative suffix), {{cog|nl|pruttelen}} Dutch pruttelen, {{cog|nl|preutelen|t=to mutter}} Dutch preutelen (“to mutter”) Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} prattle (uncountable)
  1. Silly, childish talk; babble. Tags: uncountable Derived forms: prittle-prattle Translations (babble): λάλημα (lálēma) [neuter] (Ancient Greek), λαλαγή (lalagḗ) [feminine] (Ancient Greek), esbabaye [masculine] (Asturian), бърборене (bărborene) [neuter] (Bulgarian), pludren [common-gender] (Danish), pälätys (Finnish), Geplapper [neuter] (German), gliogar [masculine] (Irish), cabaireacht [feminine] (Irish), bable (Norwegian), ле́пет (lépet) [masculine] (Russian), болтовня́ (boltovnjá) [feminine] (Russian), goileam [masculine] (Scottish Gaelic), pladder (Swedish), joller (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-prattle-en-noun-PxTdTggR Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -le (frequentative), Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Ancient Greek translations, Terms with Asturian translations, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Danish translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Irish translations, Terms with Norwegian translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Scottish Gaelic translations, Terms with Swedish translations, Talking Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 78 22 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -le (frequentative): 72 28 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 79 21 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 73 27 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 76 24 Disambiguation of Terms with Ancient Greek translations: 86 14 Disambiguation of Terms with Asturian translations: 82 18 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 85 15 Disambiguation of Terms with Danish translations: 85 15 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 82 18 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 82 18 Disambiguation of Terms with Irish translations: 79 21 Disambiguation of Terms with Norwegian translations: 80 20 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 83 17 Disambiguation of Terms with Scottish Gaelic translations: 80 20 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 84 16 Disambiguation of Talking: 71 29 Synonyms: absurdity, all my eye, all my eye and Betty Martin, apple grease [archaic, slang], applesauce [US, dated, slang], bafflegab, balderdash, balls [UK, vulgar], baloney [Australia, US], banana oil [dated], Bandini, baragouin, batcrap, batshit, bilgewater, blah, blah-blah, blah-blah-blah, blather, blatherskite, bobbins [UK], bollocks [UK, vulgar], bosh, BS, bull, bullcrap [vulgar], bulldust, bull feathers [euphemistic], bullshit [vulgar], bullspeak, bunk, bunkum, bushwah, clamjamfrey, claptrap, cobblers [UK], codswallop, crap [vulgar], crock [vulgar], crock of shit [vulgar], double Dutch, double talk, doublespeak, dribble, drivel, eyewash, fiddle-faddle, flapdoodle, flim-flam, flizz [Multicultural-London-English], flummery, folderol, foolishness, footle, framis, fuckery [Jamaica, Multicultural-London-English, vulgar], fuckry [Jamaica, Multicultural-London-English, vulgar], fudge [dated], galimatias, Gallophone, garbage [US], garble, gash [UK, slang, vulgar], gibber, gibberish, gobbledygook, gossip, Greek, guff, gup [India], hoax, hocus-pocus, hogwash, hokum, hooey [US], horse cock [US, vulgar], horsefeathers, horse hockey [Canadian], horse piss [US, vulgar], horse puckey, horseshit [US, vulgar], humbug, Irish bull, jabber, jabberwocky, jargon, jibber-jabber, jimjam, jive, junk, lallation, macaroni [Australian], malarkey [Ireland, UK, US], manure, meaninglessness, moonshine, mumbo jumbo, nertz [US], nonsense, pie in the sky, piffle, pigswill, poppycock, prattle, put-on, rhubarb [UK], rhubarb rhubarb [UK], rigmarole, rot, rubbish [UK], ruse, santorum, shit [vulgar], shite [UK, vulgar], skimble-skamble, squit [UK, dialectal], stuff [obsolete], stuff and nonsense, tommy-rot [UK], tosh [UK], trittle trattle, tush [UK], trash [US], tripe [UK], twaddle, wass [Multicultural-London-English], whiff-whaff [UK, obsolete], word salad, babble, bavardage, bibble-babble, blab, blabber, blabbing, blather, blathering, chatter, chinwag, chit-chat, claver [British, dialectal], clepe [British, dialectal], gabble, hot air, mardle [British, dialectal], natter, palaver, prate, prattle, scuttlebutt [slang], small talk, tattle, twaddle, waffle, yackety-yak, yap, yatter
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: prattlebox, prattlement, prattlesome

Verb [English]

IPA: /ˈpɹætəl/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-prattle.wav [Southern-England] Forms: prattles [present, singular, third-person], prattling [participle, present], prattled [participle, past], prattled [past]
Rhymes: -ætəl Etymology: From prate + -le (early modern English frequentative suffix). Compare Dutch pruttelen and Dutch preutelen (“to mutter”). Etymology templates: {{suf|en|prate|le|id2=frequentative|pos2=early modern English frequentative suffix}} prate + -le (early modern English frequentative suffix), {{cog|nl|pruttelen}} Dutch pruttelen, {{cog|nl|preutelen|t=to mutter}} Dutch preutelen (“to mutter”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} prattle (third-person singular simple present prattles, present participle prattling, simple past and past participle prattled)
  1. (ambitransitive) To speak incessantly and in an inconsequential or childish manner; to babble. Tags: ambitransitive Hypernyms: speak Hyponyms: gossip, sperg [derogatory, slang, vulgar], talk a blue streak [idiomatic], talk a mile a minute [idiomatic] Derived forms: prattler, prattlingly Related terms: chatterbox [noun, person], talkative [adjective] Translations (to talk incessantly; to babble): φλυαρέω (phluaréō) (Ancient Greek), بَقَّ (baqqa) (Arabic), esbabayar (Asturian), бърборя (bărborja) (Bulgarian), plkat (Czech), plapre (Danish), pludre (Danish), ratelen (Dutch), pälättää (Finnish), bavarder (French), laretar (Galician), esbardallar (Galician), barballar (Galician), barallar (Galician), ტიტინი (ṭiṭini) (Georgian), ტიკტიკი (ṭiḳṭiḳi) (Georgian), ყბედობა (q̇bedoba) (Georgian), ლაქლაქი (laklaki) (Georgian), schwatzen (German), φλυαρώ (flyaró) (Greek), κελαηδώ (kelaïdó) (Greek), csacsog (Hungarian), bí ag cabaireacht (Irish), garriō (Latin), vapalioti (Lithuanian), ломоти (lomoti) (Macedonian), pahupahu (Māori), hautete (Māori), hote (Māori), tarawhete (Māori), paplać (Polish), bajtlować [imperfective] (Polish), zbajtlować [perfective] (Polish), tagarelar (Portuguese), лепета́ть (lepetátʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), болта́ть (boltátʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), трепа́ться (trepátʹsja) [imperfective] (Russian), लपति (lapati) (Sanskrit), ప్రేలు (prēlu) (Telugu), bập bẹ (Vietnamese), bi bô (Vietnamese)
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: prattlebox, prattlement, prattlesome

Inflected forms

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          "word": "bat the breeze"
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          "word": "blab"
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          "word": "carp"
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          "word": "chat"
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          "word": "chatter"
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          "word": "chew the fat"
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          "word": "chew the rag"
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          "word": "chinwag"
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          "word": "chit-chat"
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:prattle",
          "word": "chunner"
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          "word": "clack"
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          "word": "claver"
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        {
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          "tags": [
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          "word": "clepe"
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        {
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          "word": "drivel"
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        {
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          "word": "jabber"
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          "word": "gabble"
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        {
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          "word": "gibber"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:prattle",
          "word": "go on"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:prattle",
          "word": "maunder"
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:prattle",
          "word": "natter"
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        {
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          "word": "palaver"
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        {
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          "word": "piffle"
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        {
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          "word": "prate"
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          "word": "prattle"
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          "word": "rabbit"
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          "tags": [
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          "word": "rabbit on"
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        {
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          "word": "ramble"
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          "word": "shoot the breeze"
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          "word": "shoot the bull"
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          "word": "shoot the shit"
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          "word": "smatter"
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          "word": "tattle"
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          "word": "twaddle"
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          "word": "waffle"
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          "word": "wibble"
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          "word": "witter"
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          "word": "yabber"
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          "word": "yack"
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          "word": "yatter"
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          "code": "ar",
          "lang": "Arabic",
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          "roman": "baqqa",
          "sense": "to talk incessantly; to babble",
          "word": "بَقَّ"
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          "code": "ast",
          "lang": "Asturian",
          "lang_code": "ast",
          "sense": "to talk incessantly; to babble",
          "word": "esbabayar"
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          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "lang_code": "bg",
          "roman": "bărborja",
          "sense": "to talk incessantly; to babble",
          "word": "бърборя"
        },
        {
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "lang_code": "cs",
          "sense": "to talk incessantly; to babble",
          "word": "plkat"
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        {
          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "lang_code": "da",
          "sense": "to talk incessantly; to babble",
          "word": "plapre"
        },
        {
          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "lang_code": "da",
          "sense": "to talk incessantly; to babble",
          "word": "pludre"
        },
        {
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "lang_code": "nl",
          "sense": "to talk incessantly; to babble",
          "word": "ratelen"
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        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "lang_code": "fi",
          "sense": "to talk incessantly; to babble",
          "word": "pälättää"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "lang_code": "fr",
          "sense": "to talk incessantly; to babble",
          "word": "bavarder"
        },
        {
          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "lang_code": "gl",
          "sense": "to talk incessantly; to babble",
          "word": "laretar"
        },
        {
          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "lang_code": "gl",
          "sense": "to talk incessantly; to babble",
          "word": "esbardallar"
        },
        {
          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "lang_code": "gl",
          "sense": "to talk incessantly; to babble",
          "word": "barballar"
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        {
          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "lang_code": "gl",
          "sense": "to talk incessantly; to babble",
          "word": "barallar"
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        {
          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "lang_code": "ka",
          "roman": "ṭiṭini",
          "sense": "to talk incessantly; to babble",
          "word": "ტიტინი"
        },
        {
          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "lang_code": "ka",
          "roman": "ṭiḳṭiḳi",
          "sense": "to talk incessantly; to babble",
          "word": "ტიკტიკი"
        },
        {
          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "lang_code": "ka",
          "roman": "q̇bedoba",
          "sense": "to talk incessantly; to babble",
          "word": "ყბედობა"
        },
        {
          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "lang_code": "ka",
          "roman": "laklaki",
          "sense": "to talk incessantly; to babble",
          "word": "ლაქლაქი"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "lang_code": "de",
          "sense": "to talk incessantly; to babble",
          "word": "schwatzen"
        },
        {
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "lang_code": "el",
          "roman": "flyaró",
          "sense": "to talk incessantly; to babble",
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          "source": "Thesaurus:nonsense",
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      "word": "gossip"
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      "code": "ar",
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      "word": "بَقَّ"
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      "word": "esbabayar"
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      "word": "бърборя"
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      "word": "ప్రేలు"
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      "word": "bập bẹ"
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          "word": "santorum"
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          "word": "skimble-skamble"
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:chatter",
          "word": "hot air"
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          "word": "mardle"
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          "source": "Thesaurus:chatter",
          "word": "natter"
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:chatter",
          "word": "palaver"
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          "word": "small talk"
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          "word": "tattle"
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:chatter",
          "word": "twaddle"
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:chatter",
          "word": "waffle"
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          "source": "Thesaurus:chatter",
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      "ipa": "/ˈpɹætəl/"
    },
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    {
      "code": "ast",
      "lang": "Asturian",
      "lang_code": "ast",
      "sense": "babble",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "esbabaye"
    },
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      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
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      "sense": "babble",
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        "neuter"
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    {
      "code": "da",
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      "lang_code": "da",
      "sense": "babble",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "pludren"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "lang_code": "fi",
      "sense": "babble",
      "word": "pälätys"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "babble",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Geplapper"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
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      "roman": "lálēma",
      "sense": "babble",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
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      "word": "λάλημα"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
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      "lang_code": "grc",
      "roman": "lalagḗ",
      "sense": "babble",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "λαλαγή"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "lang_code": "ga",
      "sense": "babble",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "gliogar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "lang_code": "ga",
      "sense": "babble",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "cabaireacht"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "lang_code": "no",
      "sense": "babble",
      "word": "bable"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "lang_code": "ru",
      "roman": "lépet",
      "sense": "babble",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ле́пет"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "lang_code": "ru",
      "roman": "boltovnjá",
      "sense": "babble",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "болтовня́"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "lang_code": "gd",
      "sense": "babble",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "goileam"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "lang_code": "sv",
      "sense": "babble",
      "word": "pladder"
    },
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      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "lang_code": "sv",
      "sense": "babble",
      "word": "joller"
    }
  ],
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}

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