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- Reduplication of prattle. (Wiktionary)
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“I used to watch for her letters, though mere prittle-prattle and chit-chat, received them with delight, though myself was accused in them, and stigmatized as I deserved.”
“As their noisome prittle-prattle faded into the distance, Habrunt felt the danger pass.”
“And who can tell but that their tattling would last a whole night, for there's hardly one of them who hath not at the least a hundred in their Budgets; but because it is high time that either the Dry or Wet-Nurse must go to swathe the child, they begin to break off and shorten their prittle-prattle.”
The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple
“Have done with your whispered prittle-prattle, Jan, and let me have sight of this fellow," he called angrily.”
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