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To waste time doing pointless or silly things
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
Examples
- What are you pratting about with now? Get your homework done.
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To fail to do something correctly, and so consider the time to be wasted.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
Examples
- I spent the weekend pratting about with the central heating and got absolutely nowhere with it!
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