Green’s Dictionary of Slang

prating cheat n.

also pratling cheat/chete
[SE prate, to talk, to chatter + cheat n. (1)]

(UK Und.) the tongue.

[UK]Harman Caveat for Common Cursetours in Viles & Furnivall (1907) 82: a pratling chete, a tounge.
[UK]Groundworke of Conny-catching [as cit. c.1566].
[UK]Dekker Belman’s Second Nights Walk B1: A Prat-ling cheate is a tongue, Crashing cheates, are teeth; Hearing cheates are Eares.
[UK]Dekker Canters Dict. Eng. Villainies (9th edn).
[Ire]Head Eng. Rogue I 51: Prating cheat, A Tongue.
[Ire]Head Canting Academy (2nd edn).
[UK]R. Holme Academy of Armory Ch. iii item 68c: Canting Terms used by Beggars, Vagabonds, Cheaters, Cripples and Bedlams. [...] Pratling cheat, the Tongue.
[UK]B.E. Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Prating Cheat a Tongue.
[UK]J. Shirley Triumph of Wit.
[UK]New Canting Dict. [as cit. c.1698].
[UK]Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. [as cit. 1725].
[UK]Scoundrel’s Dict. 19: The Tongue – Prating-cheat.
[UK]Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
[UK]Lex. Balatronicum.
[UK]Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
[UK]W.H. Smith ‘The Thieves’s Chaunt’ in Farmer Musa Pedestris (1896) 121: She’s wide-awake, and her prating cheat, / For humming a cove was never beat.
[UK]E. de la Bédollière Londres et les Anglais 317/1: prating cheat, la langue.