prattling

English

prattling

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 606515358, [Act II, scene ii], page 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.

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