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[bill cobbett]

Remembered there's another p word of similar meaning to the above and that is the word prat.

Pray silence whilst the OED tells us about it.

prat n.

2. Brit. slang. An idiot, a fool; an ineffectual or contemptible person.

1955 E. TREVOR Big Pick-up iv. 62 Come dahn aht of it [sc. a tree], Milly, you stupid prat! 1964 J. ORTON Entertaining Mr Sloane I. 10 Go on, you superannuated old prat! 1968 M. BRAGG Without City Wall xii. 130 He had been looking for the exact word to describe David and now he found it: prat. 1973 J. WAINWRIGHT Pride of Pigs 32 Harris was a bit of a pompous prat. 1989 D. LUCIE Fashion (rev. ed.) in Fashion (1991) II. iii. 83 You wave your arms about and act like a prat and you win a prize. 2002 N. LEBRECHT Song of Names ii. 23, I shall have to rely on luck and wit to get me through the evening without making a prat of myself.

[Oracle]

Bill c. deary ....

Would you describe the meaning of tourettes for us perhaps

[bill cobbett]

Bill c. deary ....

Would you describe the meaning of tourettes for us perhaps

My dear O. I do like it when you talk dirty.

Here is what the Good Book says of tourette

A little or short tour; an excursion.

1881 HARE Story of Life (1900) V. xxii. 332, I made a tourette into Norfolk. 1906 BUMPUS Cathedr. Eng. & Wales II. 197 Charming tourettes may be made in one direction to Rushden..in another to Chelveston.

and Tourette

Used attrib. and in the possessive (esp. in Tourette('s) syndrome) to designate a neurological disorder characterized by tics, involuntary vocalization, and the compulsive utterance of obscenities. Also ellipt. as Tourette('s).

[1886 Jrnl. Nerv. & Mental Dis. XIII. 407 (title) On convulsive tic with explosive disturbances of speech (so-called Gilles de la Tourette's disease).] 1899 Syd. Soc. Lex., Tourette's disease, motor incoordination with echolalia and coprolalia. A convulsive form of tic. 1940 S. A. K. WILSON Neurology II. xcii. 1632 Tourette's disease has certain affinities with the no less curious lâtah of the Malays. 1973 Psychosomatic Med. XXXV. 423/2 If the tics spread or progress, chemotherapy for Tourette's syndrome should be considered. 1978 A. K. SHAPIRO et al. Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome 409 His son had been diagnosed as a Tourette patient. 1981 London Rev. Bks. 19 Mar. 3/1 The forgetting of sleepy-sickness (encephalitis lethargica) and the forgetting of Tourette's have much in common. 1996 Guardian 8 Nov. (Friday Rev. section) 26/4 ‘Tourette's has a wanton force,’ said Sacks astutely. ‘It impels Shane towards both brilliance and destructiveness.’
Hence Tourettism n., behaviour typical of Tourette's syndrome.

1981 London Rev. Bks. 19 Mar. 3/1, I started to speak of ‘Tourettism’, although I had never seen a patient with Tourette's. 1988 Jrnl. Geriatric Psychiatry & Neurol. I. 169/1 Acquired Tourettism is a syndrome consisting of multiple tics, both motor and vocal.

[Bubble 'n' squeak]

Bill c. deary ....

Would you describe the meaning of tourettes for us perhaps

My dear O. I do like it when you talk dirty.

Here is what the Good Book says of tourette

A little or short tour; an excursion.

1881 HARE Story of Life (1900) V. xxii. 332, I made a tourette into Norfolk. 1906 BUMPUS Cathedr. Eng. & Wales II. 197 Charming tourettes may be made in one direction to Rushden..in another to Chelveston.

and Tourette

Used attrib. and in the possessive (esp. in Tourette('s) syndrome) to designate a neurological disorder characterized by tics, involuntary vocalization, and the compulsive utterance of obscenities. Also ellipt. as Tourette('s).

[1886 Jrnl. Nerv. & Mental Dis. XIII. 407 (title) On convulsive tic with explosive disturbances of speech (so-called Gilles de la Tourette's disease).] 1899 Syd. Soc. Lex., Tourette's disease, motor incoordination with echolalia and coprolalia. A convulsive form of tic. 1940 S. A. K. WILSON Neurology II. xcii. 1632 Tourette's disease has certain affinities with the no less curious lâtah of the Malays. 1973 Psychosomatic Med. XXXV. 423/2 If the tics spread or progress, chemotherapy for Tourette's syndrome should be considered. 1978 A. K. SHAPIRO et al. Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome 409 His son had been diagnosed as a Tourette patient. 1981 London Rev. Bks. 19 Mar. 3/1 The forgetting of sleepy-sickness (encephalitis lethargica) and the forgetting of Tourette's have much in common. 1996 Guardian 8 Nov. (Friday Rev. section) 26/4 ‘Tourette's has a wanton force,’ said Sacks astutely. ‘It impels Shane towards both brilliance and destructiveness.’
Hence Tourettism n., behaviour typical of Tourette's syndrome.

1981 London Rev. Bks. 19 Mar. 3/1, I started to speak of ‘Tourettism’, although I had never seen a patient with Tourette's. 1988 Jrnl. Geriatric Psychiatry & Neurol. I. 169/1 Acquired Tourettism is a syndrome consisting of multiple tics, both motor and vocal.

What the Phuck!! Oops sorry, it just slipped out!

[Lee A Kada]

Bill c. deary ....

Would you describe the meaning of tourettes for us perhaps

My dear O. I do like it when you talk dirty.

Here is what the Good Book says of tourette

A little or short tour; an excursion.

1881 HARE Story of Life (1900) V. xxii. 332, I made a tourette into Norfolk. 1906 BUMPUS Cathedr. Eng. & Wales II. 197 Charming tourettes may be made in one direction to Rushden..in another to Chelveston.

and Tourette

Used attrib. and in the possessive (esp. in Tourette('s) syndrome) to designate a neurological disorder characterized by tics, involuntary vocalization, and the compulsive utterance of obscenities. Also ellipt. as Tourette('s).

[1886 Jrnl. Nerv. & Mental Dis. XIII. 407 (title) On convulsive tic with explosive disturbances of speech (so-called Gilles de la Tourette's disease).] 1899 Syd. Soc. Lex., Tourette's disease, motor incoordination with echolalia and coprolalia. A convulsive form of tic. 1940 S. A. K. WILSON Neurology II. xcii. 1632 Tourette's disease has certain affinities with the no less curious lâtah of the Malays. 1973 Psychosomatic Med. XXXV. 423/2 If the tics spread or progress, chemotherapy for Tourette's syndrome should be considered. 1978 A. K. SHAPIRO et al. Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome 409 His son had been diagnosed as a Tourette patient. 1981 London Rev. Bks. 19 Mar. 3/1 The forgetting of sleepy-sickness (encephalitis lethargica) and the forgetting of Tourette's have much in common. 1996 Guardian 8 Nov. (Friday Rev. section) 26/4 ‘Tourette's has a wanton force,’ said Sacks astutely. ‘It impels Shane towards both brilliance and destructiveness.’
Hence Tourettism n., behaviour typical of Tourette's syndrome.

1981 London Rev. Bks. 19 Mar. 3/1, I started to speak of ‘Tourettism’, although I had never seen a patient with Tourette's. 1988 Jrnl. Geriatric Psychiatry & Neurol. I. 169/1 Acquired Tourettism is a syndrome consisting of multiple tics, both motor and vocal.

What the Phuck!! Oops sorry, it just slipped out!

How frustrating for you

[SSBubbles]

Bill c. deary ....

Would you describe the meaning of tourettes for us perhaps

My dear O. I do like it when you talk dirty.

Here is what the Good Book says of tourette

A little or short tour; an excursion.

1881 HARE Story of Life (1900) V. xxii. 332, I made a tourette into Norfolk. 1906 BUMPUS Cathedr. Eng. & Wales II. 197 Charming tourettes may be made in one direction to Rushden..in another to Chelveston.

and Tourette

Used attrib. and in the possessive (esp. in Tourette('s) syndrome) to designate a neurological disorder characterized by tics, involuntary vocalization, and the compulsive utterance of obscenities. Also ellipt. as Tourette('s).

[1886 Jrnl. Nerv. & Mental Dis. XIII. 407 (title) On convulsive tic with explosive disturbances of speech (so-called Gilles de la Tourette's disease).] 1899 Syd. Soc. Lex., Tourette's disease, motor incoordination with echolalia and coprolalia. A convulsive form of tic. 1940 S. A. K. WILSON Neurology II. xcii. 1632 Tourette's disease has certain affinities with the no less curious lâtah of the Malays. 1973 Psychosomatic Med. XXXV. 423/2 If the tics spread or progress, chemotherapy for Tourette's syndrome should be considered. 1978 A. K. SHAPIRO et al. Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome 409 His son had been diagnosed as a Tourette patient. 1981 London Rev. Bks. 19 Mar. 3/1 The forgetting of sleepy-sickness (encephalitis lethargica) and the forgetting of Tourette's have much in common. 1996 Guardian 8 Nov. (Friday Rev. section) 26/4 ‘Tourette's has a wanton force,’ said Sacks astutely. ‘It impels Shane towards both brilliance and destructiveness.’
Hence Tourettism n., behaviour typical of Tourette's syndrome.

1981 London Rev. Bks. 19 Mar. 3/1, I started to speak of ‘Tourettism’, although I had never seen a patient with Tourette's. 1988 Jrnl. Geriatric Psychiatry & Neurol. I. 169/1 Acquired Tourettism is a syndrome consisting of multiple tics, both motor and vocal.

What the Phuck!! Oops sorry, it just slipped out!

How frustrating for you

Better out than in so they say!

[FreeSpirit]

I thought that this was a thread about Aidan