prat
nounEtymology
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.
Definitions
A cunning or mischievous trick
A cunning or mischievous trick; a prank, a joke.
Cunning, astute.
A buttock, or the buttocks
A buttock, or the buttocks; a person's bottom.
- Pratt, a Buttock.
- No gentry mort hath prats like thine, / No cove e'er wap'd with such a one.
- Burt shook his head, wanting to tell Mac what a pain in the prat he was when he went on a take, but instead, repeated his instruction, keeping his voice at a whisper, moving his fingertips along the table […]
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A fool, contemptible person.
- Those protestors will have achieved nothing good. They are stupid prats.
The female genitals.
- "She's a far better piece Than the Viceroy's niece, Who has also more fur on her prat."
- ...they would kidnap a girl and take her back to their camp where they would pull down her knickers, hoping to find hairs on her prat.
- "My prat was sore from the unfamiliar activities of the night before, but my virgin bleeding had ceased, and we rode most of the day in that unworldly haze that comes with lack of sleep."
The neighborhood
Derived
prat about, prat around, prat boy, prat digger, pratfall, prattery, prattish, pratty
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for prat. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA