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Definition of Pratie

1. a potato [n -S] - See also: potato

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pratie

Literary usage of Pratie

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Soldier Songs and Love Songs by Alexander Hamilton Laidlaw (1898)
"THE pratie, THK PIG AND POTEEN. 'Tis daily this baste Will ... The P's are but three, But they're plenty for me,— The pratie, the Pig, the Poteen. ..."

2. Pat M'Carty, Farmer, of Antrim: His Rhymes, with a Setting by John Stevenson (1905)
"ODE TO A pratie THY name is Murphy. On the Antrim hills There's ... seed's to be had It is the biggest pratie that the country grows, And tastes not bad. ..."

3. Pat M'Carty, Farmer, of Antrim: His Rhymes, with a Setting by John Stevenson (1903)
"ODE TO A pratie THY name is Murphy. On the Antrim hills There's ... seed's to be had It is the biggest pratie that the country grows, And tastes not bad. ..."

4. Words and Their Uses, Past and Present: A Study of the English Language by Richard Grant White (1870)
"But when, stepping down from the sublime of the conditioned, I reflect that although we may say of Paddy, He bolts the pratie, we may not say, ..."

5. Words and Their Uses, Past and Present: A Study of the English Language by Richard Grant White (1870)
"But when, stepping down from the sublime of the conditioned, I reflect that although we may say of Paddy, He bolts the pratie, we may not say, ..."

6. Words and Their Uses, Past and Present: A Study of the English Language by Richard Grant White (1882)
"But when, stepping clown from the sublime of the conditioned, I reflect that although we may say of P.-iddy, He bolts the pratie, we may not say, ..."

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