Usually means: Talking excessively about trivial matters.
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  1. prating: Merriam-Webster
  2. prating: Collins English Dictionary
  3. prating: Vocabulary.com
  4. prating: Wordnik
  5. prating: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. prating: Wiktionary
  7. Prating, prating: Dictionary.com
  8. Prating: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. Prating: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. prating: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. prating: FreeDictionary.org
  12. prating: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ noun:  foolish chatter

Similar:
arse, bum, butt, tooshie, keister, Fanny, buns, rump, ass, tail end, more...

Opposite:
silence, quiet, stillness, mute, hush

Types:
blathering, babbling, gibbering, jabbering, prattling, more...

Adjectives:
hypocritical, idle, continual, foolish, much, such, eternal, sentimental, mere, solemn, impertinent



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Similar:
arse, bum, butt, tooshie, keister, Fanny, buns, rump, ass, tail end, more...

Opposite:
silence, quiet, stillness, mute, hush

Types:
blathering, babbling, gibbering, jabbering, prattling, more...

Adjectives:
hypocritical, idle, continual, foolish, much, such, eternal, sentimental, mere, solemn, impertinent



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