prat

See also: Prat, prát, prât, and přát

English

Alternative forms

• pratt

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /pɹat/

  Rhymes: -æt

Etymology 1

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

prat (plural prats)

1. (now Scotland) A cunning or mischievous trick; a prank, a joke. [from 10th c.]

Related terms

• pretty

Translations

cunning or mischievous trick

• Finnish: jekku (fi)

Adjective

prat (comparative more prat, superlative most prat)

1. (obsolete) Cunning, astute. [13th-17th c.]

Etymology 2

Origin unknown. Perhaps a specialised note of Etymology 1 (see above).

Noun

prat (plural prats)

1. (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.

   • 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.

2. (Britain, slang) A fool. [from 20th c.]
3. (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."

   • 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."

Synonyms

• See also Wikisaurus:fool
• See also Wikisaurus:buttocks

Derived terms

• pratfall
• prat about
• prattery (rare)
• prattish (rare)

Translations

buttocks

• Finnish: peppu (fi)

fool

• Finnish: torvi (fi)

female genitals

• Finnish: pillu (fi)

References

• pratt, in Sex-Lexis.com by Farlex.

Anagrams

• TRAP, part, part., patr-, rapt, tarp, trap

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Catalan

Etymology

From Latin prātum.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈpɾat/
• Rhymes: -at

Noun

prat m (plural prats)

1. meadow

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• Audio

  (file)

Etymology

Germanic, cognate with praten (“to talk”), pret (“fun”) and English prat (“trick, prank”).

Adjective

prat (comparative pratter, superlative pratst)

1. (used with op) focused, bent, fixated
2. (obsolete) proud, haughty, arrogant

Inflection

Inflection of prat
uninflected	prat
inflected	pratte
comparative	pratter
		positive	comparative	superlative
predicative/adverbial		prat	pratter	het pratst het pratste
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

• pratachtig
• pratheid

Noun

prat f (plural pratten, diminutive pratje n)

1. A pride, arrogance
2. the act of pouting or sulking

Derived terms

• pratsch
• prattig

Anagrams

• trap

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Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [prat]

Verb

prat

1. supine of praś

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Middle Low German or Low German

Noun

prat m (definite singular praten, indefinite plural prater, definite plural pratene)
prat n (definite singular pratet, indefinite plural prat, definite plural prata or pratene)

1. chat, talk

Etymology 2

Verb

prat

1. imperative of prate

References

• “prat” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Middle Low German or Low German

Noun

prat m (definite singular praten, indefinite plural pratar, definite plural pratane)
prat n (definite singular pratet, indefinite plural prat, definite plural prata)

1. chat, talk

References

• “prat” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Occitan

Etymology

From Latin prātum

Noun

prat m (plural prats)

1. meadow

Derived terms

• safran dels prats

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Swedish

Etymology

Germanic, compare above

Pronunciation

• audio

  (file)

Noun

prat n

1. Speech, talk

Related terms

• prata verb

See also

• konversation c