English

Noun

prittle-prattle ‎(usually uncountable, plural prittle-prattles)

1. (colloquial, derogatory, dated) empty talk; prattle

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Archbishop Bramhall to this entry?)

   • W. E. Burton

     For the present, then, I forgive your impertinence! but I impignorate my promise to make sausages of your intestines if you ever bore me again with your pig-my prittle prattle.

   • 1947, The Journal of Electrical Workers and Operators (volume 46, page 354)

     Most people these days are busy people — they do not have time to listen to prittle-prattle — to needless public talking […]