prat
UK/pɹat/
prat noun: a cunning or mischievous trick; a prank, a joke.
Noun (1)
prat (plural prats)
Adjective
prat (comparative more prat, superlative most prat)
Noun (2)
prat (plural prats)
- A buttock, or the buttocks; a person's bottom.
- Pratt, a Buttock.1608, Thomas Dekker, The Canters Dictionarie in The Belman of London (second part Lanthorne and Candlelight)
- No gentry mort hath prats like thine, / No cove e'er wap'd with such a one.1707, John Shirley, “The Maunder's Praise of his Strowling Mort”, in The Triumph of Wit
- A fool, contemptible person.
- Those protestors will have achieved nothing good. They are stupid prats.2023 June 29, Metro, London, page 10, column 3
- The female genitals.
- "She's a far better piece
Than the Viceroy's niece,
Who has also more fur on her prat."1967 (sourced to 1942), William A. Schwartz, The Limerick: 1700 Examples with Notes, Variants and Examples Vol 1, Greenleaf Classics 1967, p. 124 - ...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.1984 John Murray, ed, Panurge, Vol 1–3, p. 39
- "She's a far better piece
prat meaning in Tamil
prat in Tamil
- குண்டி, திறனற்றவன், உதவாக்கரை
Examples of prat in a sentence
- Nor did he like exposing his prat in mixed company.1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 5:
- "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."2005, Sherrie Seibert Goff, The Arms of Quirinus, iUniverse, page 135:
Forms of prat
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | prats |
| alternative form | pratt |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more prat |
| superlative | most prat |
Origin of prat
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).
Words formed from prat
Phrases with prat
Words that rhyme with prat
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- mat
- slat
- blat
- matt
- matte
- nat
- pat
- sat
- scat
- sprat
- vat
- old hat
- phat
- plat
- rabat
- spat
- tat
- @
- acrobat
- anticat
- antifat
- antirat
- batt
- big cat
- Cheshire cat
- clat
- combat
- gat
- glatt
- gnat
- manat
- Montserrat
- plait
- scrat
- skat
- stat
- the fact that
- twat
- whereat
- begat
- Bratt
- BTO flat
- chowkat
- dassie rat
- dat
- despotat
- drat
- Flatt
Questions about prat
- What does prat mean?
- Prat means a cunning or mischievous trick; a prank, a joke.
- What is prat in Tamil?
- Prat in Tamil is குண்டி, திறனற்றவன், உதவாக்கரை. See Prat meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use prat in a sentence?
- Nor did he like exposing his prat in mixed company.
- What part of speech is prat?
- Prat can be a noun or an adjective.
- How do you pronounce prat?
- Prat is pronounced /pɹat/ (UK).
- What is the plural of prat?
- The plural of prat is prats.
Words near prat in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: prat (page history and authors); prat (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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