prattling

English

Verb

prattling

1. present participle of prattle

Noun

prattling (plural prattlings)

1. 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,^[1]

     I haue heard of your pratlings too wel enough.

   • 1912, Jack London, The Scarlet Plague, New York: Macmillan, 1915, Chapter 1, p. 19,^[2]

     The boy, who had been regarding him with the tolerant curiousness one accords to the prattlings of the feeble-minded, answered promptly.