prattling
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]prattling
- present participle and gerund of prattle
Noun
[edit]prattling (plural prattlings)
- Prattle; foolish speech.
- c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], page 266:
- I haue heard of your pratlings too wel enough.
- 1912, Jack London, chapter 1, in The Scarlet Plague[1], New York: Macmillan, published 1915, page 19:
- The boy, who had been regarding him with the tolerant curiousness one accords to the prattlings of the feeble-minded, answered promptly.