Meaning

2 senses

  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!

Forms

prats about, pratting about, pratted about, pratted about
Base formprat about · to prat about
3rd person singularprats about
Present participlepratting about
Past simplepratted about
Past participlepratted about

irregular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyprat about
he, she, itprats about

Past simpleLesson

all personspratted about

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave pratted about
he, she, ithas pratted about

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill prat about

Phrasal verbs

2 phrasal verbs

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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