prattling

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of prattle

plural prattlings

1. Prattle; foolish speech.

   I haue heard of your pratlings too wel enough.

   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

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

   1912, Jack London, chapter 1, in The Scarlet Plague, New York: Macmillan, published 1915, page 19