prater

This young woman might talk politics, thought her new friend; no male man would call her prater, while she bore herself with that air.

The Testing of Diana Mallory Humphry Ward 1885

The Editorial Page is consistently an embarrassment, the Opinion Page hasn't updated their contributor rolodex in decades and the paper carries a gaggle of inside-the-beltway dilettantes who almost never add anything of substance to the debate (you know: Broder, Milbank, Kurtz and the other regurgitators of cocktail party prater on the WP payroll).

The Bias That We Fight... 2009

The etymology of 'prat' is unclear, but I think it relates to prate 'chatter', which had such derivatives as prater and prattle.

On being linguistically defeated DC 2008

Zophar of Naamath reproached thee with being a prater; but none of these good friends lent thee a crown.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

Will he not be called by them a prater, a star-gazer, a good-for-nothing?

The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett 2006

He who joins in the mutiny is termed a good pilot and what not; they have no conception that the true pilot must observe the winds and the stars, and must be their master, whether they like it or not; — such an one would be called by them fool, prater, star-gazer.

The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett 2006

Yorkshire abused by such a pitiful prater; and when wrought up to a certain pitch, she would turn and say something of which neither the matter nor the manner recommended her to Mr. Donne's good - will.

Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

What! a speaker is but a prater; a rhyme is but a ballad.

The Life of King Henry the Fifth 2004

Bentley having spoken thus, Scaliger, bestowing him a sour look, “Miscreant prater!” said he,

The Battle of the Books 2003

Cocksbod, said the steward, we have met with a prater.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002