praughtとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Derived from preach by analogy with teach : taught. 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.

発音

• IPA^(key): /pɹɔːt/
• 韻: -ɔːt

動詞

praught

1. (nonstandard or humorous) simple past tense and past participle of preach
   • 1870 Amos Keeter, “The Lovers,” in Punchinello Vol. 1 No. 27. [1]

     SALLY SALTER, she was a young teacher, who taught,

     And her friend, CHARLEY CHURCH, was a preacher, who praught;

     Though his enemies called him a screecher, who scraught.

   • 1996-05-22 The Anglican Mailing List [2]

     [...] I don't remember the earnest soul who praught it [...]

   • 2000-01-30 Larne Parish Homily Archive [3]

     They praught in the synagogue every Sabbath, week in, week out.

   • 2000-11-18 CHRIST AND CUPID: a sermon praught by Richard Major in the church of St Mark, Florence. [subtitle] [4]
   • 2002-08-16 The Church of Ireland Gazette Online [5]

     [...] including, by the way, York Minster where in 1999 he praught at the consecration of a new area bishop.

   • 2004-05 Beautful Feet International Ministries [6]

     So, I ‘praught’ at this group (median age of late 60’s-70’s J) just like they were teenagers [...]

   • 2004-06-01 Ian McLeod's Confusticated World [7]

     Yesterday our new preacher praught a very good lesson, in which he stated [...]

   • 2005-09-19 Xander: And the Army is disciplined... [8]

     I went to Balga Corps in the morning, then praught at a youth meeting at Morley Corps in the evening.

同意語

• preached