Definitions
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- verb nonstandard Simple past tense and past participle of
preach .
Etymologies
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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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Examples
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If the teacher taught, why isn't it also true that the preacher "praught"?
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And her friend Charley Church was a preacher who praught!
The Book of Humorous Verse Various 1902
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If the teacher taught, why isn't it also true that the preacher praught?
English News 2009
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