Prating
[preɪtɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Prate
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Examples
- Thou hast been drinking more than enough, friar, said the woodsman, and, I fear, prating more than enough too. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- An old beau must have time for prating. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Out with the prating villain! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Away with this prating dotard, said Front-de Boeuf, lock him up in the chapel, to tell his beads till the broil be over. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Curb thy prating tongue. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- If I had time, and was not in mortal dread of some prating prig of a servant passing, I would know what all this means. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
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