Praught Definition

verb

(nonstandard) Simple past tense and past participle of preach.

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Origin of Praught

  • By analogy teach : taught :: preach : X, where X = praught. Apparently a modern jocular construction but taken seriously by some. In print, generally appearing as a nonce in a much-quoted doggerel verse, attributed by some to Phoebe Cary in 1854, appearing in Punchinello 1.27 in 1870, there attributed to Amos Keeter. See quot. 1870.

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