prat

See also: Appendix:Variations of "prat"

English

Alternative forms

• pratt

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /pɹat/

• Audio (AU):

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  Rhymes: -æt

Etymology 1

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.

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

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

Noun

prat (plural prats)

1. (slang) A buttock, or the buttocks; a person's bottom. [from 16th c.]
   • 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, Australia, New Zealand, slang) A fool, contemptible person. [from 20th c.]
   • 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. [from 17th c.]
   • 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^[1], 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."

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

• pratfall
• prat about
• prat around
• prat boy
• prat digger
• prattery (rare)
• prattish (rare)

Translations

buttocks

• Bulgarian: задник (bg) m (zadnik)
• 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, rtPA, tarp, trap

Catalan

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

prat m (plural prats)

1. meadow

Derived terms

• comí de prat
• pradenc
• praderia

Related terms

• prada

Further reading

• “prat” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “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.

Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Adjective

prat (comparative pratter, superlative pratst)

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

Inflection

Declension 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

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [prat]

Verb

prat

1. supine of praś

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

Derived terms

• nettprat

Etymology 2

Verb

prat

1. imperative of prate

References

• “prat” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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

Derived terms

• nettprat

References

• “prat” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Occitan

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Languedoc) IPA^(key): /pɾat/

Noun

prat m (plural prats)

1. meadow

Derived terms

• safran dels prats
• apradar
• apradir
• pradariá
• pradèl
• pradelet
• pradelon
• pradièra

Romanian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /prat/
• Rhymes: -at

Noun

prat n (plural praturi)

1. (regional) hayfield

   Synonyms: fâneață, fânaț, cositură, ceair

2. (regional, rare) meadow

   Synonyms: pajiște, livadă

Declension

Declension of prat

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) prat	pratul	(niște) praturi	praturile
genitive/dative	(unui) prat	pratului	(unor) praturi	praturilor
vocative	pratule		praturilor

Swedish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /prɑːt/

• audio:

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Noun

prat n

1. talk, speech, conversation

Declension

Declension of prat
	Uncountable
	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	prat	pratet	—	—
Genitive	prats	pratets	—	—

Related terms

• prata (verb)
• pratminus

See also

• konversation c

References

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

Anagrams

• part, part.