prat

• pratt

• (UK) IPA^(key): /pɹat/

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  Rhymes: -æt

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.

prat (plural prats)

1. (now Scotland) A cunning or mischievous trick; a prank, a joke.

• pretty

prat (comparative more prat, superlative most prat)

1. (obsolete) Cunning, astute.

Unknown. Perhaps a specialised use of Etymology 1 (see above).

prat (plural prats)

1. (slang) A buttock, or the buttocks; a person's bottom.
   • 1608, Thomas Dekker, The Canters Dictionarie in The Belman of London (second part Lanthorne and Candlelight)

     Pratt, a Buttock.

   • 1707, John Shirley, “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.

   • 1952, Leonard Bishop, Down All Your Streets, page 218:

     Burt shook his head, wanting to tell Mac what a pain in the prat he was when he went on a take, but instead, repeated his instruction, keeping his voice at a whisper, moving his fingertips along the table

   • 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 5:

     Mungo didn't like their attitude. Nor did he like exposing his prat in mixed company.

2. (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, slang) A fool, contemptible person.
   • 2023 June 29, Metro, London, page 10, column 3:

     Those protestors will have achieved nothing good. They are stupid prats.

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, page 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."

• See also Thesaurus:fool
• See also Thesaurus:buttocks

• pratt, in Sex-Lexis.com by Farlex.

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

From Latin prātum. First attested in the 14th century.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia)
• Rhymes: -at

prat m (plural prats)

1. meadow

• comí de prat
• pradenc
• praderia
• prat alpí

• prada

• “prat”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies , 2007 April
• “prat” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “prat” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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

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prat (comparative pratter, superlative pratst)

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

• pratachtig
• pratheid

prat f (plural pratten, diminutive pratje n)

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

• pratsch
• prattig

• trap

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prat

1. supine of praś

From Middle Low German or Low German.

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

• nettprat

prat

1. imperative of prate

• “prat” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Middle Low German or Low German.

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

• nettprat

• “prat” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Old Occitan prat, from Latin prātum. Cognate with Catalan prat, Spanish prado, French pré, Italian prato.

• (Languedoc) IPA^(key): /pɾat/

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prat m (plural prats)

1. meadow

Borrowed from Italian prato (“meadow”), from Latin prātum. Most likely borrowed in 19th century.

• IPA^(key): /prat/
• Rhymes: -at

prat n (plural praturi)

1. (regional) hayfield

   Synonyms: fâneață, fânaț, cositură, ceair

2. (regional, rare) meadow

   Synonyms: pajiște, livadă

From Proto-Germanic *prattuz. Compare Dutch praat and English prate.

• IPA^(key): /prɑːt/

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prat n

1. talk, speech, conversation

• prata (verb)
• pratminus

• konversation c

• prat in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• prat in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• prat in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• part, part.