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Meanings of prater in English
Synonyms
Examples for "magpie"
Examples for "magpie"
1
TRAVEL:Paul Theroux has a magpie-like mind that jumps from subject to subject.
2
One was a dainty little magpie; the other a soft-eyed turtle dove.
3
It was a magpie, which actually had no business being in town.
4
For the magpie is the cleverest bird of all at building nests.
5
Unlike the rook, crow and magpie mentioned the woodpigeon is good eating.
1
He is hiding inside of it since the spouter made its noise.
2
Again he pointed his spouter at me, but again it only clicked.
3
We let our bodies go soft, and dropped the spouter on the ground.
4
Just then a loud report told that the spouter was again to the front.
5
Florian Marchand, "the water-spouter," was another performer who enjoyed considerable fame.
1
He's young and a great chatterer, maybe, but a help to me.
2
But the fluent chatterer reined in and became a good listener.
3
Elsie bent forward to give the chatterer another cup of tea.
4
I was always a chatterer; Lord, how I have talked in my day!
5
But you are a chatterer, and it is not pleasant to associate with you.
1
Mary Wells, though a great chatterbox, was the closest girl in England.
2
Benedick was a merry chatterbox, who had determined to live a bachelor.
3
Once I had been a regular chatterbox, but school had changed all that.
4
He is very stolid and honest, and fortunately not a chatterbox.
5
I am no chatterbox, and will certainly not betray your confidence.
1
Promise not to think me a babbler, and I will tell you.
2
He waved her aside as a babbler who broke in upon his thoughts.
3
I am no babbler, father, so the caution is not needed.
4
He was a babbler, who understood a story badly, and repeated it worse.
5
Granted I am a babbler, a harmless vexatious babbler, like all of us.
Usage of prater in English
1
The dear prater went on-Myguardian called me aside, when tea was over.
2
You would be of little account if you weren't a prater.
3
Will he not be called by them a prater, a star-gazer, a good-for-nothing?
4
Cocksbod, said the steward, we have met with a prater.
5
Speak, I beseech you, that their worships may not take me for some lying prater.
6
And yet-theprater Vanity once more, you see: but I will let him speak out this time.
7
How wholly we all lie at the mercy of a single prater, not needfully with any malign purpose!
8
D-n the prater; grinning rascal!
9
I don't care to become a bore, as it is called, or a ceaseless prater of morality, which is the same thing.
10
So he hastens to add that, of course, "the true pilot" will be called "a prater, a star-gazer, a good-for-nothing."
11
A deistical prater, fit to sit in the chimney-corner of a pot-house, and make blasphemous comments on the one greasy newspaper fingered by beer-swilling tinkers.
12
Now he said, Mollie Prater, you got a case of the crazies?
13
Matt Prater's 40-yard field goal and Ellington's long run completed the scoring.
14
Prater made his first NFL start against the team that released him.
15
She knew that they were returning from the races at the Prater.
16
Those dreaming pedants and praters never for a moment comprehended their position.
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Frequent collocations
Prater through the time