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pratted about

pratted about is the simple past and past participle of prat about.

Meaning of prat about

Verb

prat about (third-person singular simple present prats about, present participle pratting about, simple past and past participle pratted about)

  1. (informal) To waste time doing pointless or silly things
    • What are you pratting about with now? Get your homework done.
  2. (informal) To fail to do something correctly, and so consider the time to be wasted.
    • I spent the weekend pratting about with the central heating and got absolutely nowhere with it!

Questions about pratted about

What is pratted about the simple past and past participle of?
Pratted about is the simple past and past participle of prat about.

Words near pratted about in the dictionary

  1. Pratt truss
  2. Pratt's Bottom
  3. Pratt's sign
  4. Pratt's symptom
  5. Pratte
  6. pratted about
  7. pratted around
  8. Pratteln
  9. prattery
  10. Prattes
  11. prattfall

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