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Traditional English :: prate
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prater.html - v. & n. --v. 1 intr. chatter; talk too much.
2 intr. talk foolishly or irrelevantly.
3 tr. tell or say in a prating manner. --n. prater n. prating adj. [ME f. MDu., MLG praten, prob. imit.] |
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Traditional English :: prat
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prater.html - n.
sl.
1 Brit. a silly or foolish person.
2 the buttocks. [16th-c. cant (in sense 2): orig. unkn.] |
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Traditional English :: prate
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prater.html - v. & n. --v. 1 intr. chatter; talk too much.
2 intr. talk foolishly or irrelevantly.
3 tr. tell or say in a prating manner. --n. prater n. prating adj. [ME f. MDu., MLG praten, prob. imit.] |
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Traditional English :: pratfall
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prater.html - n.
US sl.
1 a fall on the buttocks.
2 a humiliating failure. |
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Traditional English :: pratie
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prater.html - n.
esp. Ir. a potato. [corrupt.] |
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Traditional English :: pratincole
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prater.html - n. any of various birds of the subfamily Glareolinae, inhabiting sandy and stony areas and feeding on insects. [mod.L pratincola f. L pratum meadow + incola inhabitant] |
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