Rattery vs Prattery - What's the difference?
rattery | prattery |
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]
As nouns the difference between rattery and prattery
is that rattery is a place where rats are bred while prattery is foolishness or foolish behaviour.prattery
English
Noun
(-)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.