Prat
adj, noun, slang ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 A cunning or mischievous trick; a prank, a joke. Scotland
- 2 A buttock, or the buttocks; a person's bottom. slang
"Pratt, a Buttock."
- 3 the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on wordnet
- 4 A fool, contemptible person. Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, slang
"Those protestors will have achieved nothing good. They are stupid prats."
- 5 The female genitals. slang
""She's a far better piece Than the Viceroy's niece, Who has also more fur on her prat.""
- 1 Cunning, astute. obsolete
Example
More examples"No gentry mort hath prats like thine, / No cove e'er wap'd with such a one."
Etymology
From Middle English prat, from Old English præt, prætt (“trick, prank, craft, art, wile”), from Proto-West Germanic *prattu, from Proto-Germanic *prattuz (“boastful talk, deceit”), from Proto-Indo-European *brodno- (“to wander about”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian prat, Dutch pret (“fun, pleasure, gaity”), obsolete Dutch prat (“cunning, strategem, scheme, a prideful display, arrogance”), Low German prot, Norwegian prette (“trick”), Icelandic prettur (“a trick”). Related to pretty.
Unknown. Perhaps a specialised use of Etymology 1 (see above).
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