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"ref": "1906, O. Henry, A Cosmopolite in a Café",
"text": "And as E. Rushmore Coglan prattled of this little planet I thought with glee of a great almost-cosmopolite who wrote for the whole world and dedicated himself to Bombay.",
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"ref": "1952, Daphne Du Maurier, “Monte Verità”, in The Apple Tree",
"text": "I looked across at Anna, and I noticed that her eyes had grown strangely blank, without expression. I felt instinctively that the subject brought up by Victor was one she would not have chosen. Victor, insensitive to this, went prattling on.",
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"To speak incessantly and in an inconsequential or childish manner; to babble."
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"word": "talk a blue streak"
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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": "chunner"
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"word": "go on"
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"word": "maunder"
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"word": "natter"
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"word": "rabbit"
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"word": "rabbit on"
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"word": "shoot the breeze"
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"word": "shoot the bull"
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"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "baqqa",
"sense": "to talk incessantly; to babble",
"word": "بَقَّ"
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"sense": "to talk incessantly; to babble",
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"sense": "to talk incessantly; to babble",
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"word": "ratelen"
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"sense": "to talk incessantly; to babble",
"word": "pälättää"
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"sense": "to talk incessantly; to babble",
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"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to talk incessantly; to babble",
"word": "laretar"
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"code": "gl",
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"sense": "to talk incessantly; to babble",
"word": "esbardallar"
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"code": "gl",
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"sense": "to talk incessantly; to babble",
"word": "barballar"
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"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to talk incessantly; to babble",
"word": "barallar"
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"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "ṭiṭini",
"sense": "to talk incessantly; to babble",
"word": "ტიტინი"
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"roman": "ṭiḳṭiḳi",
"sense": "to talk incessantly; to babble",
"word": "ტიკტიკი"
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"code": "ka",
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"roman": "q̇bedoba",
"sense": "to talk incessantly; to babble",
"word": "ყბედობა"
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"roman": "laklaki",
"sense": "to talk incessantly; to babble",
"word": "ლაქლაქი"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "to talk incessantly; to babble",
"word": "schwatzen"
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"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "flyaró",
"sense": "to talk incessantly; to babble",
"word": "φλυαρώ"
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"roman": "kelaïdó",
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"code": "hu",
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"sense": "to talk incessantly; to babble",
"word": "csacsog"
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"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to talk incessantly; to babble",
"word": "garriō"
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"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "lomoti",
"sense": "to talk incessantly; to babble",
"word": "ломоти"
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"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to talk incessantly; to babble",
"word": "pahupahu"
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"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to talk incessantly; to babble",
"word": "hautete"
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"code": "mi",
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"sense": "to talk incessantly; to babble",
"word": "hote"
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"code": "mi",
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"sense": "to talk incessantly; to babble",
"word": "tarawhete"
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"sense": "to talk incessantly; to babble",
"word": "paplać"
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"sense": "to talk incessantly; to babble",
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"code": "sa",
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"sense": "to talk incessantly; to babble",
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"code": "es",
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"sense": "to talk incessantly; to babble",
"word": "parlotear"
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"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "to talk incessantly; to babble",
"word": "bập bẹ"
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"code": "vi",
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"sense": "to talk incessantly; to babble",
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"expansion": "prattle (third-person singular simple present prattles, present participle prattling, simple past and past participle prattled)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"hypernyms": [
{
"source": "Thesaurus:prattle",
"word": "speak"
}
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:prattle",
"word": "gossip"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:prattle",
"tags": [
"derogatory",
"slang",
"vulgar"
],
"word": "sperg"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:prattle",
"tags": [
"idiomatic"
],
"word": "talk a blue streak"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:prattle",
"tags": [
"idiomatic"
],
"word": "talk a mile a minute"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"related": [
{
"source": "Thesaurus:prattle",
"tags": [
"noun",
"person"
],
"word": "chatterbox"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:prattle",
"tags": [
"adjective"
],
"word": "talkative"
}
],
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"examples": [
{
"ref": "1906, O. Henry, A Cosmopolite in a Café",
"text": "And as E. Rushmore Coglan prattled of this little planet I thought with glee of a great almost-cosmopolite who wrote for the whole world and dedicated himself to Bombay.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1952, Daphne Du Maurier, “Monte Verità”, in The Apple Tree",
"text": "I looked across at Anna, and I noticed that her eyes had grown strangely blank, without expression. I felt instinctively that the subject brought up by Victor was one she would not have chosen. Victor, insensitive to this, went prattling on.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"To speak incessantly and in an inconsequential or childish manner; to babble."
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[
"intransitive",
"intransitive"
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[
"incessantly",
"incessantly"
],
[
"babble",
"babble"
]
],
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"(transitive, intransitive) To speak incessantly and in an inconsequential or childish manner; to babble."
],
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"word": "prattle"
}
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"intransitive",
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"ipa": "/ˈpɹætəl/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ætəl"
},
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"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"source": "Thesaurus:prattle",
"word": "babble"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:prattle",
"tags": [
"US",
"idiomatic"
],
"word": "bat the breeze"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:prattle",
"word": "blab"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:prattle",
"word": "blabber"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:prattle",
"word": "blather"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:prattle",
"tags": [
"obsolete"
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"word": "carp"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:prattle",
"word": "chat"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:prattle",
"word": "chatter"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:prattle",
"tags": [
"idiomatic"
],
"word": "chew the fat"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:prattle",
"tags": [
"idiomatic"
],
"word": "chew the rag"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:prattle",
"word": "chinwag"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:prattle",
"word": "chit-chat"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:prattle",
"word": "chunner"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:prattle",
"word": "clack"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:prattle",
"tags": [
"British",
"dialectal"
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"word": "claver"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:prattle",
"tags": [
"British",
"dialectal"
],
"word": "clepe"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:prattle",
"word": "drivel"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:prattle",
"word": "jabber"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:prattle",
"word": "gabble"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:prattle",
"word": "gibber"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:prattle",
"word": "go on"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:prattle",
"word": "maunder"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:prattle",
"word": "natter"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:prattle",
"word": "palaver"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:prattle",
"word": "piffle"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:prattle",
"word": "prate"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:prattle",
"word": "prattle"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:prattle",
"tags": [
"British",
"dialectal"
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"word": "rabbit"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:prattle",
"tags": [
"British",
"dialectal"
],
"word": "rabbit on"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:prattle",
"word": "ramble"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:prattle",
"tags": [
"US",
"idiomatic"
],
"word": "shoot the breeze"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:prattle",
"tags": [
"idiomatic"
],
"word": "shoot the bull"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:prattle",
"tags": [
"idiomatic",
"slang",
"vulgar"
],
"word": "shoot the shit"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:prattle",
"word": "smatter"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:prattle",
"word": "tattle"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:prattle",
"word": "twaddle"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:prattle",
"word": "waffle"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:prattle",
"tags": [
"British",
"Internet"
],
"word": "wibble"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:prattle",
"word": "witter"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:prattle",
"word": "yabber"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:prattle",
"word": "yack"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:prattle",
"word": "yatter"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:prattle",
"word": "yap"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "baqqa",
"sense": "to talk incessantly; to babble",
"word": "بَقَّ"
},
{
"code": "ast",
"lang": "Asturian",
"sense": "to talk incessantly; to babble",
"word": "esbabayar"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "bǎrborja",
"sense": "to talk incessantly; to babble",
"word": "бърборя"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to talk incessantly; to babble",
"word": "plkat"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "to talk incessantly; to babble",
"word": "plapre"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "to talk incessantly; to babble",
"word": "pludre"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to talk incessantly; to babble",
"word": "ratelen"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to talk incessantly; to babble",
"word": "pälättää"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to talk incessantly; to babble",
"word": "bavarder"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to talk incessantly; to babble",
"word": "laretar"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to talk incessantly; to babble",
"word": "esbardallar"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to talk incessantly; to babble",
"word": "barballar"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to talk incessantly; to babble",
"word": "barallar"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "ṭiṭini",
"sense": "to talk incessantly; to babble",
"word": "ტიტინი"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "ṭiḳṭiḳi",
"sense": "to talk incessantly; to babble",
"word": "ტიკტიკი"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "q̇bedoba",
"sense": "to talk incessantly; to babble",
"word": "ყბედობა"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "laklaki",
"sense": "to talk incessantly; to babble",
"word": "ლაქლაქი"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to talk incessantly; to babble",
"word": "schwatzen"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "flyaró",
"sense": "to talk incessantly; to babble",
"word": "φλυαρώ"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "kelaïdó",
"sense": "to talk incessantly; to babble",
"word": "κελαηδώ"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "phluaréō",
"sense": "to talk incessantly; to babble",
"word": "φλυαρέω"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to talk incessantly; to babble",
"word": "csacsog"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to talk incessantly; to babble",
"word": "garriō"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "lomoti",
"sense": "to talk incessantly; to babble",
"word": "ломоти"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to talk incessantly; to babble",
"word": "pahupahu"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to talk incessantly; to babble",
"word": "hautete"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to talk incessantly; to babble",
"word": "hote"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to talk incessantly; to babble",
"word": "tarawhete"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to talk incessantly; to babble",
"word": "paplać"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to talk incessantly; to babble",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "bajtlować"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to talk incessantly; to babble",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "zbajtlować"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "lepetátʹ",
"sense": "to talk incessantly; to babble",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "лепета́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "boltátʹ",
"sense": "to talk incessantly; to babble",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "болта́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "trepátʹsja",
"sense": "to talk incessantly; to babble",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "трепа́ться"
},
{
"code": "sa",
"lang": "Sanskrit",
"roman": "lapati",
"sense": "to talk incessantly; to babble",
"word": "लपति"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to talk incessantly; to babble",
"word": "parlotear"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "to talk incessantly; to babble",
"word": "bập bẹ"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "to talk incessantly; to babble",
"word": "bi bô"
}
],
"word": "prattle"
}
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"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms suffixed with -le (verbal frequentative)",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"English uncountable nouns",
"English verbs",
"Rhymes:English/ætəl",
"Rhymes:English/ætəl/2 syllables",
"en:Talking"
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{
"word": "prittle-prattle"
}
],
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"name": "suffix"
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{
"args": {
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"2": "pruttelen"
},
"expansion": "Dutch pruttelen",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "preutelen",
"t": "to mutter"
},
"expansion": "Dutch preutelen (“to mutter”)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
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"expansion": "prattle (uncountable)",
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
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{
"glosses": [
"Silly, childish talk; babble."
],
"links": [
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"babble",
"babble"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "nonsense"
},
{
"word": "chatter"
}
],
"tags": [
"uncountable"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈpɹætəl/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ætəl"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-prattle.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/c/cc/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-prattle.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-prattle.wav.mp3",
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"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
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"translations": [
{
"code": "ast",
"lang": "Asturian",
"sense": "babble",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "esbabaye"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "bǎrborene",
"sense": "babble",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "бърборене"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "babble",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "pludren"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "babble",
"word": "pälätys"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "babble",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Geplapper"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "lálēma",
"sense": "babble",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "λάλημα"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "lalagḗ",
"sense": "babble",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "λαλαγή"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "babble",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "gliogar"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "babble",
"word": "bable"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "lépet",
"sense": "babble",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "boltovnjá",
"sense": "babble",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "болтовня́"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "babble",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "goileam"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "babble",
"word": "pladder"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "babble",
"word": "joller"
}
],
"word": "prattle"
}
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