Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Slang The buttocks.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A trick.
- n. The buttock.
Wiktionary
- n. A cunning or mischievous trick; a piece of deceit; a fraudulent scheme.
- n. UK, slang A fool.
- n. slang The female genitals.
- adj. cunning, astute
WordNet 3.0
- n. the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
Etymologies
- From Middle English prat, from Old English præt, prætt ("trick, prank, craft, art, wile"), from Proto-Germanic *prattuz (“boastful talk, deceit”), from Proto-Indo-European *brodno- (“to wander about”). Cognate with Eastern 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. (Wiktionary)
- Origin unknown. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Reading btweeen his lines it also looks as though Osborne is moribund; an inside Tory source is quoted as describing him as a 'prat' - hardly the credentials for Tory Chancellor, even though that would follow NuLab's tradition for the past decade or so.”
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
“So your grandson's tone of voice implied that he'd call you a "prat" -- which of his languages does that come from presumably, not Spanish, and what does it mean?”
“I still haven’t seen hide nor hair of a blue uniform, and some prat is now even taking pictures of where we leave our wheelie bins.”
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“Yes we do Frank you prat, which is why you're now a cripple and the rest of us are not.”
“No matter the genre, a prat is a prat, a pompous ponce a pompous ponce.”
“-- To the rule laid down in the preceding adhikara/n/a the so-called pratîkopâsanas, i.e. those meditations in which Brahman is viewed under a symbol or outward manifestation (as, for instance, mano brahmety upâsîta) constitute an exception, i.e. the devotee is not to consider the pratîka as constituting his own Self.”
The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1
“By the time we got back to the hotel I had been labelled a prat for my careless approach to not applying sun tan lotion evenly”
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“Being a prat is a state of mind and not transport-specific.”
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“The other being the obvious one of being called a prat a lot ..”
“And, they should stop being afraid to call a prat a prat!”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘prat’.
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buttocks
words for buttocks and anything
to do with buttockssteatopygia, callipygous, callipygian, tuchis, tot, stern, seat, rear, rump, keisterrump, fundament, fanny and 160 more...
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UK - slang
fanny, nick, mufti, siphon, mug, smashing, butcher, stick up, knocker, porridge, tit, punter and 208 more...
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Insult Words
A rich collection of all the ways you can insult someone's intelligence.
nincompoop, dimwit, moron, cretin, idiot, meathead, dingbat, nerd, loony, fool, dunce, lamebrain and 31 more...
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britishisms
A tip of my hat to the snarkiest of English dialects. Here here!
Ponce, snog, bloody, barmy, blasted, blooming, bleeding, knackered, poppycock, wanker, tosser, cracked and 52 more...
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Twitter favourites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favourite word" and adds it to this list.
See also:
thunderfuck, incredible, merp, sara, flopparoo, smother, fugly, buer, plum, canny, nefelibata, cuntbucket and 1972 more... -
British words
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Tuesday words
just the next words that come along
nasality, transignification, lapsarian, disciple, slanguage, atwitter, avast, ahoy, asleep, awake, hymnody, glissade and 573 more...
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DYSLEXIC'S DREAD
Words That Make Sense in Reverse Too! Bad news for a dyslexic, 'cause s/he's got no clue if s/he read the word correctly or not, as opposed to a palindrome (i.e., no mistake possible, cf. "Dyslexic...
tool, lever, nap, pool, leer, leek, desserts, strop, doom, ukiah, yaws, ward and 213 more...
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flannagan's Words
netop, kenspeckle, loden, framboise, providence, milquetoast, schism, cadence, thrush, asphodel, clandestine, aesthete and 196 more...
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implify's Words
gaia, eviscerate, lament, ephemeral, urbane, blight, variant, schadenfreude, hubbub, iteration, feign, hobgoblin and 243 more...
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thou varlet!
insults that roll trippingly off the tongue
varlet, addlepated, knucklehead, schmuck, ignoramus, bedlamite, nincompoop, nitwit, knave, bungler, blockhead, galoot and 91 more...
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Did you just insult me?!
Words to use in moments of high frustration that they hopefully won't understand.
naïf, jerk, temerity, presumptuousness, presumptuous, arrogant, impudence, insolence, hick, bitch, asshole, ass and 61 more...
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A Whiz Mob
Pickpocket lingo. Words culled from and inspired by this article. See also A Swell Mob and The Grifters.
pit, prat, skinning the poke, kissing the dog, whiz mob, wire mob, steer, mark, vic, chump, Mr. Bates, pappy and 54 more...
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Bill Bryson's Agreeable Words
These are words Mr. Bryson thinks sound especially nice, or are perfect for what they describe.
granola, globule, scrapie, snooze, chortle, clank, grasp, dribble, bloat, galoshes, pandemonium, transubstantiation and 18 more...
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Gloriaha's Words
immute, wholly, inure, penchant, halcyon, fusty, smidgeon, ostension, array, amalgam, meliorate, bungle and 64 more...
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at least a bit ausländisch
also: words that are either not English, or would never be used by the majority of Americans.
portmanteau, szczecin, schlepp, waistcoat, prat, yonks, git, nom de plume, miłość, genau, umlaut, pila
Tweets
Looking for tweets for prat.
oroboros Tarp in reverse. Jul 22, 2007