0 present participle of prattle
1 to talk in a silly way or like a child for a long time about things that are not important or without saying anything important:
The emphasis on the diminutive and the innocent happiness of the child highlight the failure of innocence; "pretty little prattling innocence" succumbs to cruel villainy.
We no longer hear any prattling about competitive private enterprise.
It is no good prattling on about whether it is binding.
It is no good prattling about new signalling systems or little bits of electrification here and there.
He needs to be in a country for only three days to be prattling.
Have we got them rationalised, or are we just prattling along in the same old middle-class conventional attitudes to crime?
Socialists should remember in their prattling and wittering that, for the young service man and woman of today, the fundamental character of war will remain unchanged.
I would rather be grappling than prattling.
