adj
Meaning 1
Cunning, astute.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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Standard Lemma guide
prat
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Pronunciation
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UK: /pɹat/
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rhymes with -æt
noun
Meaning 2
A cunning or mischievous trick; a prank, a joke.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland
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noun
Meaning 3
A buttock, or the buttocks; a person's bottom.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
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noun
Meaning 4
A fool, contemptible person.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, slang
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noun
Meaning 5
The female genitals.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
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noun
Meaning 6
the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- he deserves a good kick in the butt
- are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: buttocks, nates, arse, butt, backside, bum, buns, can, fundament, hindquarters, hind end, keister, posterior, rear, rear end, rump, stern, seat, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush, bottom, behind, derriere, fanny, ass
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: body part
History
Etymology
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.
Unknown. Perhaps a specialised use of Etymology 1 (see above).
Across languages
Translations
7 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Finnish: jekku — cunning or mischievous trick
- Bulgarian: задник (zadnik) — buttocks
- Finnish: peppu — buttocks
- Czech: blbeček — fool
- Czech: blb — fool
- Finnish: torvi — fool
- Finnish: pillu — female genitals