different between wordy vs prattling

English

Etymology

From Middle English wordy, woordi, from Old English wordi? (“wordy, verbose”), equivalent to word +? -y. Cognate with Icelandic orðigur (“wordy”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?w?di/
• Rhymes: -??(r)di

Adjective

wordy (comparative wordier, superlative wordiest)

1. Using an excessive number of words.

   The story was long and very wordy.

Synonyms

• verbose
• pleonastic
• sesquipedalian
• See also Thesaurus:verbose
• See also Wikipedia:Wordy

Derived terms

• unwordy
• wordily
• wordiness

Translations

Anagrams

• dowry, rowdy

Middle English

Alternative forms

• woordi

Etymology

From Old English wordi?; equivalent to word +? -y.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?wurdi?/, /?w?rdi?/, /?w??rdi?/

Adjective

wordy

1. (rare) wordy

Descendants

• English: wordy

References

• “w??rd?, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 27 February 2020.

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.