different between garrulous vs prattling

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin garrulus (“talkative”), from the verb garri? (“I chatter”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??æ?.?.l?s/, /??æ?.j?.l?s/
• (US) IPA^(key): /????.?.l?s/, /????.j?.l?s/, /??æ?.?.l?s/, /??æ?.j?.l?s/

Adjective

garrulous (comparative more garrulous, superlative most garrulous)

1. Excessively or tiresomely talkative.

   Synonyms: chatty, talkative, long-winded, loquacious, tonguey, voluble; see also Thesaurus:talkative

   • 1984, "A Modern Whitman," by James Atlas. The Atlantic, Dec 1984.

     Crammed with gossip, anecdotes, and confessions . . ., his garrulous, untidy narratives read like a good novel.

2. (of something written or performed) Excessively wordy and rambling.

   Synonyms: bombastic, rambling, wordy; see also Thesaurus:verbose

Derived terms

• garrulously
• garrulousness

Related terms

• garrulity

Translations

English

Verb

prattling

1. present participle of prattle

Noun

prattling (plural prattlings)

1. Prattle; foolish speech.
   • c. 1600, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act II, Scene 2 [Act III, Scene 1 in modern editions], in Mr. William Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies, London, 1623, p. 266,^[1]

     I haue heard of your pratlings too wel enough.

   • 1912, Jack London, The Scarlet Plague, New York: Macmillan, 1915, Chapter 1, p. 19,^[2]

     The boy, who had been regarding him with the tolerant curiousness one accords to the prattlings of the feeble-minded, answered promptly.