What's the difference between beefy and prattle?

Beefy


Definition:

  • (a.) Having much beef; of the nature of beef; resembling beef; fleshy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Summerville hinted that Affleck would eventually make for a seriously beefy Batman .
  • (2) Corcoran, an athletic, beefy 6ft 2in, has been scorned, insulted, threatened and sprayed with a hose – manifestations of guilt, he said.
  • (3) Updated at 5.46pm BST 5.38pm BST 3rd over: England 6-0 (Cook 5, Robson 1) Beefy and Athers are discussing last night's dinner, which means we've been here all day.
  • (4) It’s the same hyper-sexualised imagery that feeds gay nightclub advertorials and community events: images of ripped studs and beefy bodies, a focus on aesthetic glory.
  • (5) A number of patients presenting with typical features of this disease, characterized in particular by a beefy-red exuberant appearance of the lesions, have been treated at Shongwe Hospital in Kangwane in the Eastern Transvaal.
  • (6) Its political cartoonist Stephff sketched bald and beefy Secret Service agents with frothing mouths and guns in hand , readily assaulting innocent waiters offering glasses of water to the president.
  • (7) In 86 episodes from 1999 to 2007, in HBO's hit series The Sopranos, the balding, beefy, middle-aged Gandolfini, as Tony Soprano, a New Jersey mafia boss, managed to transcend any stereotyping of Italian-Americans (although the charge was still made) by showing the flawed character's vulnerable side.
  • (8) Real Boxing One of the best-looking sports games on any mobile device, this sees you battling through a 30-fight career mode against 20 beefy boxers, while training your fighter up in between matches.
  • (9) 6.18pm BST 60 min: Huddlestone, after a beefy challenge, gets the first yellow card of the game.
  • (10) Obviously we check with the stump mike and dish out a hefty penalty if he fails to repeat what he actually said (a night out with Beefy, say, or a batting masterclass from Tuffers).
  • (11) Bumble is ex-Accrington Stanley, Beefy ex-Scunthorpe - so of course, Beefy immediately notes the superiority of his career.
  • (12) The gross appearance of the spleens was beefy red without tumor nodules.
  • (13) You may feel that describing your penis as Beefy McManstick or Blue-veined Jack Hammer or The Pink Oboe will add to your incredible sex life and who I am to say otherwise?
  • (14) Updated at 4.20pm BST 4.16pm BST 58th over: Sri Lanka 191-5 (Sangakkara 71, Chandimal 15) Beefy is happy with the variety of England's attack, but Strauss is not, citing only Plunkettas different.
  • (15) Thy Neighbor’s Wife, his beefy, heteronormative examination of sex, published in 1981 on the cusp of the Aids epidemic, was greeted skeptically during the reporting process and with jeers upon publication.
  • (16) Her beefy, mustachioed husband, Pascal, whom she met on a holiday to the Dordogne in 2007, sits by her side protectively, giving her leg the occasional supportive squeeze.
  • (17) Beefy, though, sees Jordan as a skidder and points out that the only batsman to get a score has had four chances.
  • (18) 10.31pm BST Pirates 0 - Cardinals 0, bottom of 1st The beefy Adams hits a weak puny ground ball, guess where?
  • (19) They quickly recorded 2009's Brand New Eyes, a beefy, slick rock album that solidified their place in the mainstream.

Prattle


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To talk much and idly; to prate; hence, to talk lightly and artlessly, like a child; to utter child's talk.
  • (v. t.) To utter as prattle; to babble; as, to prattle treason.
  • (n.) Trifling or childish tattle; empty talk; loquacity on trivial subjects; prate; babble.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The talk coming from senior Tories – at least some of whom have the grace to squirm when questioned on this topic – suggesting that it's all terribly complicated, that it was a long time ago and that even SS members were, in some ways, themselves victims, is uncomfortably close to the kind of prattle we used to hear from those we called Holocaust revisionists.
  • (2) An immensely cerebral man, who trained himself to need only six hours of sleep - believing that a woman should have seven and only a fool eight - Mishcon was not a man given to small talk, nor one who would tolerate prattle for the sake of it.
  • (3) Comparisons between present-day China and the soulless, dreary totalitarian socialist state immortalised in Orwell's masterpiece are difficult to sustain after seeing clutch after clutch of Chinese teenagers, dressed in the latest quasi-Japanophile fashion, walk down a mobbed Beijing pedestrian shopping arcade nibbling at bouquets of candy floss and prattling on as if the phrase "commodity fetishism" had never crossed their young lips.
  • (4) The opening prattle this week is all about the seven deadly sins.
  • (5) I think they're about to escort me from the building for prattling on in an unGuardian manner.
  • (6) Melancholia itself would have been talking point enough without Von Trier's prattling.
  • (7) These days depression is the stuff of postprandial dinner-party prattle, but Plath explored the condition with no sense of its being a "condition" that others shared, no established therapeutic vocabulary, and no Prozac.
  • (8) The South Americans have played 25 games, and are guaranteed to play two more including tomorrow's match • Three of Diego Forlán's four goals in World Cup finals history have come from outside the box 7:10pm: As ITV's panel prattling on about how surprising it is to see harmony in the Dutch camp - exagerrating the divisions of the past and reinforcing the view that English society remains stubbornly anti-intellectual (and anti-male knitting), afraid of anyone who does not fear to speak his mind - let's see what's happening in Uruguay.
  • (9) Anyway, I won't prattle on for there is more live action to be found: San Jose Earthquakes vs LA Galaxy is about to kick off.
  • (10) Or it could be that the Sun loves me when I'm a prattling, giggling, Essex boy "Shagger of the Year", when I'm in my proper place, beneath vacuous headlines, herding their flock towards dumb lingo and crap bingo, when I'm being cheeky on MTV or even unwisely invading answerphones, in a way that many would argue, is less offensive than the manner that they are alleged to have done.
  • (11) Inexperienced MPs who prattle on about deeper UK involvement in Syria don’t yet grasp how merely symbolic much of it is nowadays.
  • (12) When I hear him prattle on inanely I can imagine how Neil Lennon felt when the Geordie dullard kicked him in the head."
  • (13) 2.30pm BST If you'd like to see me, Ian Prior, Barry Glendenning and Owen Gibson prattling on in front of a camera about Sir Alex Ferguson's retirement, then you're in luck!
  • (14) The forced cheerfulness of Nicholson's earlier scenes with the hotel manager are a sharp contrast to the sense of anger and tension as he drives and listens to his wife and son prattle on.

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