prattling
English
Noun
prattling (plural prattlings)
- Prattle; foolish speech.
- c. 1600, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act II, Scene 2 [Act III, Scene 1 in modern editions], in Mr. William Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies, London, 1623, p. 266,
- I haue heard of your pratlings too wel enough.
- 1912, Jack London, The Scarlet Plague, New York: Macmillan, 1915, Chapter 1, p. 19,
- The boy, who had been regarding him with the tolerant curiousness one accords to the prattlings of the feeble-minded, answered promptly.
- c. 1600, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act II, Scene 2 [Act III, Scene 1 in modern editions], in Mr. William Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies, London, 1623, p. 266,
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