prate

1. (ambitransitive) To talk much and to little purpose; to be loquacious; to speak foolishly.Examples: "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."; "What nonsense would the fool, thy master, prate, / When thou, his knave, canst talk at such a rate!"; "Urania speaks with darken’d brow: ⁠‘Thou pratest here where thou art least; ⁠This faith has many a purer priest, And many an abler voice than thou: […]’"Synonyms: blabber, babble, bat the breeze, blab, blabber, blather, carp, chatambitransitive