Meanings
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of latrate
With everything boiling over; with everyone rapping, yakking, or latrating, it would restore dignity to a number of America’s newspapers if the objectivity of their reporting would harden in direct proportion to the subjectivity of the story being reported.
1972, Max Wylie, 400 Miles from Harlem: Courts, Crime, and Correction, page 201
- Of barking.
- not comparablerareliterally
I once saw a big dog plunging out furiously as a passing car, and, as I watched him, his gait looked peculiar. The reason for this eccentricity became clear when he returned from his latrating orgy: he had only three legs.
circa 1928: Charles Hall Grandgent, Prunes and Prism: With Other Odds and Ends, page 145 - not comparablerarefiguratively
That seems to be, nowadays, the barker’s pet name for his latrating art.
1929, Charles Hall Grandgent, The New Word, page 90
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