English Explanatory Dictionary

prat

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A cunning or mischievous trick; a prank, a joke.
adj
  1. Cunning, astute.
noun
  1. A buttock, or the buttocks; a person's bottom.
  2. A fool, contemptible person.
  3. The female genitals.

Pronunciation

/pɹat/ En-au-prat.ogg

Word forms

prat prats pratt more prat most prat

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.

Related words

pretty

Derived words

prat about prat around prat boy prat digger pratfall prattery prattish pratty
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