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Grammar : Verb
Spell : preyt
Phonetic Transcription : preɪt

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Définition of prating

Origin :
  • early 15c., from or related to Middle Dutch praten "to chatter" (c.1400), from a West Germanic imitative root (cf. East Frisian proten, Middle Low German praten, Middle High German braten, Swedish prata "to talk, chatter"). Related: Prated; prating. As a noun from 1570s.
  • verb babble
Example sentences :
  • The groom is a prating rascal, and your maid ought to mind her own affairs.
  • Extract from : « Davenport Dunn, Volume 1 (of 2) » by Charles James Lever
  • I will have no gallivanting, no cozening and smiling and prating and distracting.
  • Extract from : « Desert Dust » by Edwin L. Sabin
  • And now let there be no more of this prating in mid-battle as though we were children.
  • Extract from : « The Iliad » by Homer
  • “I am tired of thy watching and prating,” declared Francis with spirit.
  • Extract from : « In Doublet and Hose » by Lucy Foster Madison
  • Prating like a school-boy about a summons from Miss Wardour.
  • Extract from : « The Diamond Coterie » by Lawrence L. Lynch
  • He is still a prating man; and the more I know him, the less I find in him.
  • Extract from : « Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete » by Samuel Pepys
  • T was he set us all agog in the beginning with his preaching and prating.
  • Extract from : « Long Will » by Florence Converse
  • There's no end to the mischief done by these busy, prating men.
  • Extract from : « Felix Holt, The Radical » by George Eliot
  • And all the time the socialists went on prating about the economic revolution.
  • Extract from : « Meccania » by Owen Gregory
  • The chirurgion is a prating fello, and I think sett on per others.
  • Extract from : « Diary of Richard Cocks Vol. I » by Richard Cocks

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