prat
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English[edit]
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Etymology 1[edit]
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 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[edit]
prat (plural prats)
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Translations[edit]
Adjective[edit]
prat (comparative more prat, superlative most prat)
Etymology 2[edit]
Origin unknown. Perhaps a specialised note of Etymology 1 (see above).
Noun[edit]
prat (plural prats)
- (slang) A buttock, or the buttocks; a person's bottom. [from 16th c.]
- Thomas Dekker, 1608, The Canters Dictionarie in The Belman of London (second part Lanthorne and Candlelight)
- Pratt, a Buttock.
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1707, Shirley, John, “The Maunder's Praise of his Strowling Mort”, in The Triumph of Wit:
- No gentry mort hath prats like thine, / No cove e'er wap'd with such a one.
- 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin 2006, p. 5:
- Mungo didn't like their attitude. Nor did he like exposing his prat in mixed company.
- Thomas Dekker, 1608, The Canters Dictionarie in The Belman of London (second part Lanthorne and Candlelight)
- (Britain, slang) A fool. [from 20th c.]
- (slang) The female genitals.
- 1967 (sourced to 1942), William A. Schwartz, The Limerick: 1700 Examples with Notes, Variants and Examples Vol 1, Greenleaf Classics 1967, p. 124:
- "She's a far better piece
Than the Viceroy's niece,
Who has also more fur on her prat."
- "She's a far better piece
- 1984 John Murray, ed, Panurge, Vol 1–3, p. 39:
- "...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."
- 2005 Sherrie Seibert Goff, The Arms of Quirinus, iUniverse 2005, p. 135:
- "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."
- 1967 (sourced to 1942), William A. Schwartz, The Limerick: 1700 Examples with Notes, Variants and Examples Vol 1, Greenleaf Classics 1967, p. 124:
Synonyms[edit]
- See also Thesaurus:fool
- See also Thesaurus:buttocks
Derived terms[edit]
- pratfall
- prat about
- prattery (rare)
- prattish (rare)
Translations[edit]
References[edit]
- pratt, in Sex-Lexis.com by Farlex.
Anagrams[edit]
Catalan[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
prat m (plural prats)
Further reading[edit]
- “prat” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Dutch[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Germanic, cognate with praten (“to talk”), pret (“fun”) and English prat (“trick, prank”).
Pronunciation[edit]
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Audio (file)
Adjective[edit]
prat (comparative pratter, superlative pratst)
Inflection[edit]
Inflection of prat | ||||
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uninflected | prat | |||
inflected | pratte | |||
comparative | pratter | |||
positive | comparative | superlative | ||
predicative/adverbial | prat | pratter | het pratst het pratste |
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indefinite | m./f. sing. | pratte | prattere | pratste |
n. sing. | prat | pratter | pratste | |
plural | pratte | prattere | pratste | |
definite | pratte | prattere | pratste | |
partitive | prats | pratters | — |
Derived terms[edit]
Noun[edit]
prat f (plural pratten, diminutive pratje n)
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Lower Sorbian[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
prat
Norwegian Bokmål[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Middle Low German or Low German
Noun[edit]
prat m (definite singular praten, indefinite plural prater, definite plural pratene)
prat n (definite singular pratet, indefinite plural prat, definite plural prata or pratene)
Derived terms[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
Verb[edit]
prat
- imperative of prate
References[edit]
- “prat” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle Low German or Low German
Noun[edit]
prat m (definite singular praten, indefinite plural pratar, definite plural pratane)
prat n (definite singular pratet, indefinite plural prat, definite plural prata)
Derived terms[edit]
References[edit]
- “prat” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Occitan[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
prat m (plural prats)
Derived terms[edit]
Swedish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Germanic, compare above
Pronunciation[edit]
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audio (file)
Noun[edit]
prat n
Related terms[edit]
- prata verb
See also[edit]
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- en:Buttocks
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