different between porkpie vs prattle

English

porkpie (plural porkpies)

From prate +? -le (“early modern English frequentative suffix”). Compare Dutch pruttelen and Dutch preutelen (“to mutter”).

prattle (third-person singular simple present prattles, present participle prattling, simple past and past participle prattled)

(transitive, intransitive) To speak incessantly and in an inconsequential or childish manner; to babble.
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:prattle

prattle (uncountable)

Silly, childish talk; babble.
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:nonsense, Thesaurus:chatter
- c. 1603, William Shakespeare, Othello, the Moor of Venice, Act I, scene I, line 27
  Mere prattle without practice is all his soldiership.

prattle, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition (2000)
Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “prattle”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

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