prater
- a word derived from prate.
Example Sentences
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So he hastens to add that, of course, "the true pilot" will be called "a prater, a star-gazer, a good-for-nothing."
From Public Opinion by Lippmann, Walter
What! a speaker is but a prater; a rhyme is but a ballad.
From How to be Happy Though Married Being a Handbook to Marriage by Hardy, Edward John
The dear prater went on—My guardian called me aside, when tea was over.
From The History of Sir Charles Grandison, Volume 4 (of 7) by Richardson, Samuel
A conscienceless old prater of the soap and salve school, with not as much idea of drawing or value as a two-year Julianite.
From The Nest, The White Pagoda, The Suicide, A Forsaken Temple, Miss Jones and The Masterpiece by Sedgwick, Anne Douglas
Nor is it at all necessary for thee to be a prater, for others better than thou are present.
From The Iliad of Homer (1873) by Buckley, Theodore Alois
