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To talk much and to little purpose; to be loquacious; to speak foolishly; to babble.

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  1. v. i. To talk much and to little purpose; to be loquacious; to speak foolishly; to babble.
  2. v. t. To utter foolishly; to speak without reason or purpose; to chatter, or babble.
  3. n. Talk to little purpose; trifling talk; unmeaning loquacity.
  4. n. idle or foolish and irrelevant talk
  5. v. speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
  6. To talk much and to little purpose; to be loquacious; to speak foolishly; to babble. To prate and talk for life and honor. Shak. And make a fool presume to prate of love. Dryden. To utter foolishly; to speak without reason or purpose; to chatter, or babble. What nonsense would the fool, thy master, prate, When thou, his knave, canst talk at such a rate ! Dryden. Talk to little purpose; trifling talk; unmeaning loquacity. Sick of tops, and poetry, and prate. Pope.
  7. To talk much and to little purpose; to be loquacious; to speakfoolishly; to babble.To prate and talk for life and honor. Shak.And make a fool presume to prate of love. Dryden.
  8. n. idle or foolish and irrelevant talk