Crossword clues for prating
prating
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Prate \Prate\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Prated; p. pr. & vb. n. Prating.] [Akin to LG. & D. praten, Dan. prate, Sw. & Icel. prat
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] To talk much and to little purpose; to be loquacious; to speak foolishly; to babble.
To prate and talk for life and honor.
--Shak.And make a fool presume to prate of love.
--Dryden.
Wiktionary
n. foolish chatter vb. (present participle of prate English)
Usage examples of "prating".
The men whom he most disliked were those whom he called babblers, who are continually prating of everything and on everything.
No Licinius Crassus had ever been apostrophized as a demagogue or any other sort of political radical, so what was Catulus prating about?
I did dream of acorns and of eating one of them, which foretelleth, as all men know, a gradual rise to riches and honor, that I should be bid to cease prating by a stranger, and he a mere lad?
But Sabinus was lucky, probably because Caesar had deemed him a prating fool from the moment he had reported for duty.
I am a Vagabond, and was never one for swearing pompous oaths and prating about honor.
Still, we ended the evening very agreeably, prating about the Bendas in the library: we might play some of their duets that I brought with me when we have finished our wine.
Binkley had abandoned art and was prating of the unusual spring catch of shad.
Boros might try to speak of evil gods and rites beneath Tor Al'Kiir, or Julia, but no ear would pay heed to the pratings of a drunken former apprentice mage, nor the babblings of a pot-girl.