1. prating - Noun
2. prating - Verb
of Prate
Source: Webster's dictionaryWhenever you hear a man prating about the Constitution, spot him as a traitor. Andrew Johnson
...How idle is this prating about natural rights as though still containing all that had been forfeited. Jefferson Davis
A prating barber asked Archelaus how he would be trimmed. He answered, "In silence." Plutarch
Leave this hypocritical prating about the masses. Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of them. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fifty years of anarchy await you, and you will emerge from it only by the power of some dictator who will arise- a true statesman and patriot. O prating people, if you did but know how to act! Jean-Paul Marat
I say, thou mad March hare, I wonder how ye dare Open your jangling jaws To preach in any clause, Like prating popping daws, Against her excellence, Against her reverence, Against her pre-eminence, Against her magnificence, That never did offence. John Skelton