Meaning of latrate | Babel Free

Definitions

To bark; to make doglike noises.

rare

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Examples

“Latrate, to barke like⟳ a dog.”

“I once saw⟳ a big dog plunging out furiously at 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.”

“[…] Rip ought to know⟳ there wasn’t a beggar’s chance of catching one of the birds; all the silly, latrating dogs thus showed off.”

“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.”

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