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Prat
Definitions
- 1 Cunning, astute. obsolete
- 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.""
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.
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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