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English
Etymology
See pranny.
Noun
prannet (plural prannets)
- (informal) A stupid person; a prat.
He tried to dry his phone in the toaster. What a prannet!
1977, Ian Dury (lyrics and music), “Billericay Dickie”:I'd rendezvous with Janet
Quite near the Isle of Thanet
She looked more like a gannet
She wasn't 'alf a prannet
1997 October 15, George Gimarc, Post Punk Diary: 1980-1982, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 249:Robbi Millar in Sounds says it's, "... utterly tasty. […] maybe even those dull prannets down at the Beeb will see some good in it."
2012 October 16, Will Self, The Sweet Smell of Psychosis: A Novella, Grove/Atlantic, Inc., →ISBN:Anyways, this prannet goes in, trudges all the way up three flights of pokertunity. So I'm thinking I'm quids in – because that's the way I'd figured it – when he turns tail and comes barrelling all the way back down again, […]
Further reading
2006, Dalzell Victor Eds Staff, Eric Partridge, The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English: J-Z, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 1539:prannet; prannie; pranny noun / a fool; a general term of contempt UK / After an obsolete sense of 'prannie' (female genitals, hence CUNT). / • She wasn't half a prannet[.] - Ian Dury, Billericay Dickie, 1977 / • Anyways, this prannet goes in, trudges all the way up three flights[.] - Will Self, The Sweet Smell of Psychosis, p. 22, 1996