Prater (Noun)
Meaning
An obnoxious and foolish and loquacious talker.
Classification
Nouns denoting people.
Examples
- The prater at the party wouldn't let anyone else get a word in edgewise with his non-stop chatter about his latest get-rich-quick scheme.
- His coworkers avoided the office prater, who would corner them by the water cooler and drone on about his weekend for hours.
- The prater in the meeting dominated the discussion, spewing forth irrelevant and inane comments that left everyone else confused.
- At the dinner party, the prater held court, regaling the other guests with outlandish and exaggerated tales of his supposed adventures.
- The prater on the bus wouldn't stop talking to the stranger sitting next to him, despite the stranger's obvious attempts to ignore him.