prattery

Noun

 * 1) Foolishness or foolish behaviour.
 * 2) * 2004. March 13, “Ian G Batten” (username), “Re: haddock”, in, Usenet,
 * If an obviously egomanic twit makes wonderful music, should his prattery disqualify him?
 * 1) * 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.
 * 1) * 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.


 * 1) * 1821. March, Sarah Spencer Lady Lyttelton. Correspondence of Sarah Spencer Lady Lyttelton 1787-1870 (Kessinger Publishing, 2006), page 234
 * The Prattery are just come to town.
 * 1) * 1871. March 18, Edwin Norris, in The Correspondence of William Henry Fox Talbot, Glasgow University
 * ...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.

Related terms

 * prattle
 * prattler

Translations

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