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Someone who talks the way puppies chew — constantly, aimlessly, on everything within reach.

means A person who chatters on and on about trivial things, often without saying much of substance.

from From 'prattle,' which popped up in the 1500s as a frequentative form of 'prate' — that is, 'prate' plus a suffix implying repeated, small-scale action, the same pattern you see in 'babble' or 'wobble.' 'Prate' itself is probably related to Low German and Dutch words for chattering or gossiping, likely echoic in origin — meaning it may have been coined to imitate the very sound of idle talk. So a prattler is, by the word's own built-in logic, someone doing a little version of empty talk, over and over.

origin
from Dutch pratelen, to chatter idly
key trait
volume of words, not value
related species
cousin to the blabbermouth and windbag
fatal flaw
mistakes talking for thinking
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