prevastigating

Updated: May 27, 2025

"Well, when I was in these very waters in the Scaramouch we caught one with a bit of pork that weighed the shark, I mean, not the pork I forget just what, and wouldn't say, for fear you might think I was prevastigating, but it was twenty-four foot long." "Oh, come, Bill, not twenty-four," protested Harry. "That's what it was," stoutly asserted Bill, rummaging in a locker for a shark-hook.

John Henry Goldfrap - The Boy Aviators' Treasure Quest