Prattler vs Prattery - What's the difference?
prattler | prattery | Related terms |
One who prattles or is inclined to do so.
:The patrolman had the misfortune to be assigned a beat that ran past the house of Ms. McDougall, a notorious prattler and neighborhood gossip.
Foolishness or foolish behaviour.
* 2004. March 13, “Ian G Batten” (username), “
*2004. July 20, Alastair Down, The Racing Post'' (London, England), article ''The Open and Shut Case of the Missing Hub-Caps.
*:...Paying sportsmen obscene sums of money does not necessarily mean they behave badly. Unlike football, there seems to be no correlation between fat cattery and prattery .
*2008. Jan 26, Simon Barnes, Tehran Times'', article ''Keep Class Out of it. In sport you are either good enough, or you’re not ,
*:Marcus Willis... had been driving the coaches at the Lawn Tennis Association to distraction, and with this latest bit of prattery finally pushed his luck too far.
* 1821. March, Sarah Spencer Lady Lyttelton. Correspondence of Sarah Spencer Lady Lyttelton 1787-1870 (Kessinger Publishing, 2006), page 234
*1871. March 18, Edwin Norris, in ''The Correspondence of William Henry Fox Talbot, Glasgow University[http://foxtalbot.dmu.ac.uk/project/project.html]
Prattler is a related term of prattery.
As nouns the difference between prattler and prattery
is that prattler is one who prattles or is inclined to do so while prattery is foolishness or foolish behaviour.prattler
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(en noun)prattery
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(-)Re: haddock”, in uk.misc, Usenet ,
- If an obviously egomanic twit makes wonderful music, should his prattery disqualify him?
- The Prattery are just come to town.
- ...We have hunutu muttabbiltu, which must be instruments musical, see hunutu in my p. 291. I derive it from
the viol, or prattery, your nabala.