different between schmooze vs prattle

English

Alternative forms

• schmoose, schmooz, shmooze

Etymology

Borrowed from Yiddish ?????? (shmues), from Hebrew ??????????? (sh'mu'ót), plural of ?????????? (sh'mu'á, “report, piece of news, rumor”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: shmo?oz, IPA^(key): /?mu?z/
• Rhymes: -u?z

Verb

schmooze (third-person singular simple present schmoozes, present participle schmoozing, simple past and past participle schmoozed)

1. To talk casually, especially in order to gain an advantage or make a social connection.

Derived terms

Noun

schmooze (plural schmoozes)

1. A casual conversation, especially one held in order to gain an advantage or make a social connection.

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?æt?l/
• Rhymes: -æt?l

Verb

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

1. (transitive, intransitive) To speak incessantly and in an inconsequential or childish manner; to babble.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:prattle

Derived terms

• prattler
• prattlingly

Translations

Noun

prattle (uncountable)

1. 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.

Translations

References

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

Anagrams

• Platter, partlet, platter