"prate" meaning in English

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          "sense": "talk to little purpose",
          "word": "pälättää"
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          "code": "fi",
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          "sense": "talk to little purpose",
          "word": "hölpöttää"
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          "sense": "talk to little purpose",
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          "word": "Geschwätz"
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          "sense": "talk to little purpose",
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          "sense": "talk to little purpose",
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          "word": "болтовня́"
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          "word": "пустосло́вие"
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          "roman": "trjop",
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          "word": "трёп"
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          "ref": "c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], page 136, column 1:",
          "text": "Thou ſowre and firme-ſet Earth / Heare not my ſteps, which they may walke, for feare / Thy very ſtones prate of my where-about, / And take the preſent horror from the time, / Which now ſutes with it.",
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          "ref": "1697, Virgil, “Pastorl 3”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "What nonsense would the fool, thy master, prate, / When thou, his knave, canst talk at such a rate!",
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          "ref": "1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, Canto XXXVII, page 57:",
          "text": "Urania speaks with darken’d brow:\n⁠‘Thou pratest here where thou art least;\n⁠This faith has many a purer priest,\nAnd many an abler voice than thou: […]’",
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          "ref": "1976 June 7, Nik Cohn, “Inside the Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night”, in New York Magazine:",
          "text": "They are not so chic, these kids. They don’t haunt press receptions or opening nights; they don’t pose as street punks in the style of Bruce Springsteen, or prate of rock & Rimbaud.",
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          "ref": "1999 February 19, Stephen Holden, “'Office Space': One Big Happy Family? No, Not at This Company”, in New York Times:",
          "text": "Puffed up with fake jocularity, Bill epitomizes the smiley, buck-passing, back-stabbing, passive-aggressive office dictator who fears and despises his underlings while prating nauseatingly about everybody being one big happy family.",
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        "To talk much and to little purpose; to be loquacious; to speak foolishly."
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        "(transitive, intransitive) To talk much and to little purpose; to be loquacious; to speak foolishly."
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          "roman": "bǎrborja",
          "sense": "to talk much, to chatter",
          "word": "бърборя"
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          "word": "लपति"
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          "word": "boş konuşmak"
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      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
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      "code": "fi",
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      "sense": "talk to little purpose",
      "word": "pälättää"
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "talk to little purpose",
      "word": "hölpöttää"
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      "code": "de",
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      "sense": "talk to little purpose",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
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      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "talk to little purpose",
      "word": "kotete"
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    {
      "code": "pl",
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      "sense": "talk to little purpose",
      "tags": [
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      "sense": "talk to little purpose",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "болтовня́"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "pustoslóvije",
      "sense": "talk to little purpose",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "пустосло́вие"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "trjop",
      "sense": "talk to little purpose",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "трёп"
    },
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      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "talk to little purpose",
      "word": "gevezelik"
    }
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          "ref": "c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], page 136, column 1:",
          "text": "Thou ſowre and firme-ſet Earth / Heare not my ſteps, which they may walke, for feare / Thy very ſtones prate of my where-about, / And take the preſent horror from the time, / Which now ſutes with it.",
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          "text": "What nonsense would the fool, thy master, prate, / When thou, his knave, canst talk at such a rate!",
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          "ref": "1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, Canto XXXVII, page 57:",
          "text": "Urania speaks with darken’d brow:\n⁠‘Thou pratest here where thou art least;\n⁠This faith has many a purer priest,\nAnd many an abler voice than thou: […]’",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1976 June 7, Nik Cohn, “Inside the Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night”, in New York Magazine:",
          "text": "They are not so chic, these kids. They don’t haunt press receptions or opening nights; they don’t pose as street punks in the style of Bruce Springsteen, or prate of rock & Rimbaud.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1999 February 19, Stephen Holden, “'Office Space': One Big Happy Family? No, Not at This Company”, in New York Times:",
          "text": "Puffed up with fake jocularity, Bill epitomizes the smiley, buck-passing, back-stabbing, passive-aggressive office dictator who fears and despises his underlings while prating nauseatingly about everybody being one big happy family.",
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        "(transitive, intransitive) To talk much and to little purpose; to be loquacious; to speak foolishly."
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          "word": "blabber"
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          "word": "prattle"
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    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "bǎrborja",
      "sense": "to talk much, to chatter",
      "word": "бърборя"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to talk much, to chatter",
      "word": "babbelen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to talk much, to chatter",
      "word": "bavarder"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to talk much, to chatter",
      "word": "plaudern"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to talk much, to chatter",
      "word": "schwatzen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to talk much, to chatter",
      "word": "schwätzen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to talk much, to chatter",
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ],
      "word": "faseln"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to talk much, to chatter",
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ],
      "word": "schwafeln"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to talk much, to chatter",
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ],
      "word": "labern"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to talk much, to chatter",
      "word": "kotete"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "boltátʹ",
      "sense": "to talk much, to chatter",
      "word": "болта́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "sa",
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      "sense": "to talk much, to chatter",
      "word": "लपति"
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      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to talk much, to chatter",
      "word": "brbljati"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to talk much, to chatter",
      "word": "naklapati"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to talk much, to chatter",
      "word": "lupetati"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "to talk much, to chatter",
      "word": "boş konuşmak"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "to talk much, to chatter",
      "word": "gevezelik etmek"
    }
  ],
  "word": "prate"
}