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prat¹

  • /pɹat/ UK

Rhymes with -æt

Where it comes from

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.

noun prats · pratt

  1. Scotland A cunning or mischievous trick; a prank, a joke.

adjective more prat · most prat · pratt

  1. obsolete Cunning, astute.

prat²

  • /pɹat/ UK

Rhymes with -æt

Where it comes from

Unknown. Perhaps a specialised use of Etymology 1 (see above).

noun prats · pratt

  1. slang A buttock, or the buttocks; a person's bottom. Pratt, a Buttock.
  2. Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, slang A fool, contemptible person. Those protestors will have achieved nothing good. They are stupid prats.
  3. slang The female genitals. "She's a far better piece Than the Viceroy's niece, Who has also more fur on her prat."

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@misc{prat_2026,
  title = {prat},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/prat},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}