pratingn.

Brit.

/ˈpreɪtɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈpreɪdɪŋ/

Forms: see prate v. and -ing suffix¹; also Irish English (northern) 1900s– prathen.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: prate v., -ing suffix¹.

Etymology: < prate v. + -ing suffix¹. Compare Middle Low German (rare) prōtinge idle talk.

The action of prate v.; (originally) idle or foolish talk, esp. of a tediously lengthy nature; (now usually) pompous or overbearing talk, ‘preaching’; an instance of this.Formerly also: †boasting or malicious talk (obsolete).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > [noun] > chattering

chaveling?c1225

janglingc1330

jangleryc1374

tatteringc1380

ganglinga1387

clatteringc1400

babbling?c1430

languetingc1450

pratinga1470

cackling1530

prattling1530

tattling1547

gaggling1548

clicketing1575

twattling1577

clacking1594

gabbling1599

blattering1604

snuttering1693

futileness1727

rattling1753

gabbering1798

magginga1800

yaffing1815

deblateration1817

tattlement1837

nattering1859

spieling1859

yattering1859

chatteration1862

quiddling1870

windjamming1886

waffling1958

motormouthing1981

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > empty, idle talk > [noun]

windc1290

trotevalea1300

follyc1300

jangle1340

jangleryc1374

tongue1382

fablec1384

clapa1420

babbling?c1430

clackc1440

pratinga1470

waste?a1475

clattera1500

trattle1513

babble?a1525

tattlea1529

tittle-tattlea1529

chatc1530

babblery1532

bibble-babble1532

slaverings1535

trittle-trattle1563

prate?1574

babblement1595

pribble-prabble1595

pribble1603

morologya1614

pibble-pabblea1616

sounda1616

spitter-spatter1619

argology1623

vaniloquence1623

vaniloquy1623

drivelling1637

jabberment1645

blateration1656

onology1670

whittie-whattiea1687

stultiloquence1721

claver1722

blether1786

havera1796

jaunder1796

havering1808

slaver1825

yatter1827

bugaboo1833

flapdoodle1834

bavardage1835

maunder1835

tattlement1837

slabber1840

gup1848

faddle1850

chatter1851

cock1851

drivel1852

maundering1853

drooling1854

windbaggery1859

blither1866

javer1869

mush1876

slobber1886

guff1888

squit1893

drool1900

macaroni1924

jive1928

natter1943

shtick1948

old talk1956

yack1958

yackety-yack1958

ole talk1964

Haigspeak1981

a1470 J. Tiptoft Orat. G. Flamineus (Caxton 1481) f. iv He in his drunkenesse with his stombling yoxing & prating.

a1500 (a1475) G. Ashby Dicta Philosophorum 684 in Poems (1899) 73 (MED) Ye aught not to haue other in hatyng, But hertely cherissh theim withoute prating.

1533 J. Heywood Mery Play Iohan Iohan sig. B.ii^v Go and chafe the wax, whyle thou art well And let vs haue no more pratyng thus.

1592 T. Nashe Strange Newes sig. H3 Since we are here on our prating bench in a close roome.

1622 F. Bacon Hist. Raigne Henry VII 164 After that these two, had by ioynt and severall Pratings found tokens of consent in the Multitude.

c1650 (a1450) Death & Life l. 259 in I. Gollancz Sel. Early Eng. Poems (1930) V. 9 Thou payne[s] thee with pratinge to pray me to cease.

1663 S. Patrick Parable of Pilgrim 227 Ever chattering and babling as if they had obtained a patent for prating.

1707 G. Farquhar Beaux Stratagem i. 7 Hold your prating, Sirrah, do you know who you are?

1791 J. Byng Diary 24 June in Torrington Diaries (1935) II. 332 I was..urged to ride to Narborough..by the prating of my host, about an old house there, wherein Oliver Cromwell resided.

1814 Ld. Byron Corsair i. vii. 8 ‘Peace, peace!’—He cuts their prating short.

1860 R. W. Emerson Considerations in Conduct of Life (London ed.) 218 Leave this hypocritical prating about the masses.

1936 Morning News (Florence, S. Carolina) 15 Mar. 3/1 He [sc. Mussolini] is anything but an apostle of peace with his pratings to his subjects that ‘war enobles the race’.

1962 Salisbury (Maryland) Times 24 Jan. 6/6 Some arguments are so childish they rate no more attention than the pratings of children.

1992 Daily Tel. 5 Apr. (BNC) 19 The greater part of the British are anti-intellectual and anti-political to this day, and no amount of prating..is going to change that.

2004 Pantagraph (Bloomington, Illinois) (Nexis) 21 Nov. c3 Political campaigns in which we were subjected to incessant and opportunistic prating about ‘values’.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

pratingadj.

Brit.

/ˈpreɪtɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈpreɪdɪŋ/

Forms: see prate v. and -ing suffix².

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: prate v., -ing suffix².

Etymology: < prate v. + -ing suffix².

That prates; (originally) talking idly, chattering, prattling, esp. at length; (now usually) talking in an overbearing or pompous way, ‘preaching’.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > empty, idle talk > [adjective] > engaging in idle talk

babblinga1250

chatteringa1250

drivellinga1475

clattering1477

trattling?a1513

prating1528

bluddering1553

chatting1589

mouthy1589

dribbling1593

tinkling1625

stultiloquious1683

havering1720

vaniloquent1727

haverela1774

havering1808

stultiloquent1845

yattering1859

blethery1889

blithering1889

yackety-yacking1953

yacketing1958

nattering1959

yacking1959

chopsy1974

1528 J. Skelton Honorificatissimo: Replycacion agaynst Yong Scolers sig. Aiii I wondre howe ye dare Open your ianglyng iawes To preche in any clawes Lyke pratynge poppyng dawes Agaynst her excellence.

1567 Triall of Treasure sig. B^v Looke on this legge ye prating slaues, I remember since it was no greater then a tree.

1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xxxviii. 176 There be as prating boyes, as there be pratling wenches.

1602 N. Breton Mothers Blessing sig. D4 Allow..no prating Knaue, Nor lazie Rascall.

1676 J. Bunyan Strait Gate in Wks. (1846) 272 A prating tongue will not unlock the gates of heaven.

1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison III. xxii. 217 Can there be a greater torment than an officious prating Love?

1778 G. Spencer Let. 28 Dec. in D. Garrick & G. Spencer Lett. (1960) 159 A line addressed to Mrs Maitland (that same prating civil dame you remember)..will reach her time enough to have it in readiness for you.

1794 H. L. Piozzi Brit. Synonymy II. 174 Ciarlatano means a prating, cackling creature.

1823 N. Amer. Rev. Apr. 238 Low and vulgar abuse, which is applied to particular sects merely on the authority of some prating story-teller, or scandalous newspaper.

1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xx. 464 Montague was a brilliant rhetorician, and, therefore,..represented by detractors as a superficial, prating pretender.

1892 R. L. Stevenson & L. Osbourne Wrecker xv. 232 I would..have carried along with me to Midway Island all the writers and the prating artists of my time.

1936 Times 7 Oct. 12/2 The loud-mouthed but cowardly Nationalists..and the prating Socialists.

1993 Toronto Star (Nexis) 2 Oct. a1 For those who have already had their fill of prating politicians, the idea of a quick, British-style campaign no doubt sounds appealing.

Derivatives

ˈpratingly adv. rare.

ΚΠ

1749 W. Sewell Large Dict. Eng. & Dutch (ed. 4) 365/2 Pratingly.

1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Pratingly, with tittle tattle; with loquacity.

2001 Cutting to Chase in alt.fiction.original (Usenet newsgroup) 5 Mar. This pearl of wisdom comes to us—paradoxically enough—from one of the most pratingly verbose characters in all of Shakespeare.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	prating
释义	pratingn. Brit. /ˈpreɪtɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈpreɪdɪŋ/ Forms: see prate v. and -ing suffix¹; also Irish English (northern) 1900s– prathen. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: prate v., -ing suffix¹. Etymology: < prate v. + -ing suffix¹. Compare Middle Low German (rare) prōtinge idle talk. The action of prate v.; (originally) idle or foolish talk, esp. of a tediously lengthy nature; (now usually) pompous or overbearing talk, ‘preaching’; an instance of this.Formerly also: †boasting or malicious talk (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > [noun] > chattering chaveling?c1225 janglingc1330 jangleryc1374 tatteringc1380 ganglinga1387 clatteringc1400 babbling?c1430 languetingc1450 pratinga1470 cackling1530 prattling1530 tattling1547 gaggling1548 clicketing1575 twattling1577 clacking1594 gabbling1599 blattering1604 snuttering1693 futileness1727 rattling1753 gabbering1798 magginga1800 yaffing1815 deblateration1817 tattlement1837 nattering1859 spieling1859 yattering1859 chatteration1862 quiddling1870 windjamming1886 waffling1958 motormouthing1981 the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > empty, idle talk > [noun] windc1290 trotevalea1300 follyc1300 jangle1340 jangleryc1374 tongue1382 fablec1384 clapa1420 babbling?c1430 clackc1440 pratinga1470 waste?a1475 clattera1500 trattle1513 babble?a1525 tattlea1529 tittle-tattlea1529 chatc1530 babblery1532 bibble-babble1532 slaverings1535 trittle-trattle1563 prate?1574 babblement1595 pribble-prabble1595 pribble1603 morologya1614 pibble-pabblea1616 sounda1616 spitter-spatter1619 argology1623 vaniloquence1623 vaniloquy1623 drivelling1637 jabberment1645 blateration1656 onology1670 whittie-whattiea1687 stultiloquence1721 claver1722 blether1786 havera1796 jaunder1796 havering1808 slaver1825 yatter1827 bugaboo1833 flapdoodle1834 bavardage1835 maunder1835 tattlement1837 slabber1840 gup1848 faddle1850 chatter1851 cock1851 drivel1852 maundering1853 drooling1854 windbaggery1859 blither1866 javer1869 mush1876 slobber1886 guff1888 squit1893 drool1900 macaroni1924 jive1928 natter1943 shtick1948 old talk1956 yack1958 yackety-yack1958 ole talk1964 Haigspeak1981 a1470 J. Tiptoft Orat. G. Flamineus (Caxton 1481) f. iv He in his drunkenesse with his stombling yoxing & prating. a1500 (a1475) G. Ashby Dicta Philosophorum 684 in Poems (1899) 73 (MED) Ye aught not to haue other in hatyng, But hertely cherissh theim withoute prating. 1533 J. Heywood Mery Play Iohan Iohan sig. B.ii^v Go and chafe the wax, whyle thou art well And let vs haue no more pratyng thus. 1592 T. Nashe Strange Newes sig. H3 Since we are here on our prating bench in a close roome. 1622 F. Bacon Hist. Raigne Henry VII 164 After that these two, had by ioynt and severall Pratings found tokens of consent in the Multitude. c1650 (a1450) Death & Life l. 259 in I. Gollancz Sel. Early Eng. Poems (1930) V. 9 Thou payne[s] thee with pratinge to pray me to cease. 1663 S. Patrick Parable of Pilgrim 227 Ever chattering and babling as if they had obtained a patent for prating. 1707 G. Farquhar Beaux Stratagem i. 7 Hold your prating, Sirrah, do you know who you are? 1791 J. Byng Diary 24 June in Torrington Diaries (1935) II. 332 I was..urged to ride to Narborough..by the prating of my host, about an old house there, wherein Oliver Cromwell resided. 1814 Ld. Byron Corsair i. vii. 8 ‘Peace, peace!’—He cuts their prating short. 1860 R. W. Emerson Considerations in Conduct of Life (London ed.) 218 Leave this hypocritical prating about the masses. 1936 Morning News (Florence, S. Carolina) 15 Mar. 3/1 He [sc. Mussolini] is anything but an apostle of peace with his pratings to his subjects that ‘war enobles the race’. 1962 Salisbury (Maryland) Times 24 Jan. 6/6 Some arguments are so childish they rate no more attention than the pratings of children. 1992 Daily Tel. 5 Apr. (BNC) 19 The greater part of the British are anti-intellectual and anti-political to this day, and no amount of prating..is going to change that. 2004 Pantagraph (Bloomington, Illinois) (Nexis) 21 Nov. c3 Political campaigns in which we were subjected to incessant and opportunistic prating about ‘values’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). pratingadj. Brit. /ˈpreɪtɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈpreɪdɪŋ/ Forms: see prate v. and -ing suffix². Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: prate v., -ing suffix². Etymology: < prate v. + -ing suffix². That prates; (originally) talking idly, chattering, prattling, esp. at length; (now usually) talking in an overbearing or pompous way, ‘preaching’. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > empty, idle talk > [adjective] > engaging in idle talk babblinga1250 chatteringa1250 drivellinga1475 clattering1477 trattling?a1513 prating1528 bluddering1553 chatting1589 mouthy1589 dribbling1593 tinkling1625 stultiloquious1683 havering1720 vaniloquent1727 haverela1774 havering1808 stultiloquent1845 yattering1859 blethery1889 blithering1889 yackety-yacking1953 yacketing1958 nattering1959 yacking1959 chopsy1974 1528 J. Skelton Honorificatissimo: Replycacion agaynst Yong Scolers sig. Aiii I wondre howe ye dare Open your ianglyng iawes To preche in any clawes Lyke pratynge poppyng dawes Agaynst her excellence. 1567 Triall of Treasure sig. B^v Looke on this legge ye prating slaues, I remember since it was no greater then a tree. 1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xxxviii. 176 There be as prating boyes, as there be pratling wenches. 1602 N. Breton Mothers Blessing sig. D4 Allow..no prating Knaue, Nor lazie Rascall. 1676 J. Bunyan Strait Gate in Wks. (1846) 272 A prating tongue will not unlock the gates of heaven. 1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison III. xxii. 217 Can there be a greater torment than an officious prating Love? 1778 G. Spencer Let. 28 Dec. in D. Garrick & G. Spencer Lett. (1960) 159 A line addressed to Mrs Maitland (that same prating civil dame you remember)..will reach her time enough to have it in readiness for you. 1794 H. L. Piozzi Brit. Synonymy II. 174 Ciarlatano means a prating, cackling creature. 1823 N. Amer. Rev. Apr. 238 Low and vulgar abuse, which is applied to particular sects merely on the authority of some prating story-teller, or scandalous newspaper. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xx. 464 Montague was a brilliant rhetorician, and, therefore,..represented by detractors as a superficial, prating pretender. 1892 R. L. Stevenson & L. Osbourne Wrecker xv. 232 I would..have carried along with me to Midway Island all the writers and the prating artists of my time. 1936 Times 7 Oct. 12/2 The loud-mouthed but cowardly Nationalists..and the prating Socialists. 1993 Toronto Star (Nexis) 2 Oct. a1 For those who have already had their fill of prating politicians, the idea of a quick, British-style campaign no doubt sounds appealing. Derivatives ˈpratingly adv. rare. ΚΠ 1749 W. Sewell Large Dict. Eng. & Dutch (ed. 4) 365/2 Pratingly. 1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Pratingly, with tittle tattle; with loquacity. 2001 Cutting to Chase in alt.fiction.original (Usenet newsgroup) 5 Mar. This pearl of wisdom comes to us—paradoxically enough—from one of the most pratingly verbose characters in all of Shakespeare. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1470adj.1528
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