prattlement

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

prattle +‎ -ment

Noun[edit]

prattlement (usually uncountable, plural prattlements)

  1. prattle; childish chatter
    • April 1805, Francis Jeffrey, "The Lay of the Last Minstrel", in Edinburgh Review
      she had never listened to the prattlement of the river and mountain spirits

References[edit]

prattlement”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.