pratt
US/pɹæt/
pratt is the alternative spelling of prat.
Meaning of prat
Noun (1)
prat (plural prats)
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)
- 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
- "She's a far better piece
Proper noun capitalized: Pratt
Pratt (countable and uncountable, plural Pratts)
- A surname known in England, Ireland, and Scotland.
- A city, the county seat of Pratt County, Kansas.
- An unincorporated community in Steele County, Minnesota.
- An unincorporated community in Ripley County, Missouri.
- A mountain in New Hampshire, United States.
- A town in Kanawha County, West Virginia.
- Ellipsis of Pratt County.
Noun capitalized: PRATT
PRATT (plural PRATTs)
Forms of pratt
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | pratts |
| plural | PRATTs |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Pratts |
Origin of pratt
From Middle English prat, from Old English prætt. More at prat.
Probably from French pré (“meadow”), meaning a meadow dweller; from Old French prat, from Latin pratum. Another proposed source is Old English prætt (“trick, cunning, astute”).
Initialism of point refuted a thousand times.
Words formed from pratt
Phrases with pratt
Words that rhyme with pratt
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- slat
- blat
- matt
- matte
- nat
- pat
- sat
- scat
- sprat
- vat
- old hat
- phat
- plat
- prat
- 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 pratt
- What does pratt mean?
- Pratt means a surname known in England, Ireland, and Scotland.
- What is pratt the alternative spelling of?
- Pratt is the alternative spelling of prat.
- What part of speech is pratt?
- Pratt can be a proper noun or a noun.
- How do you pronounce pratt?
- Pratt is pronounced /pɹæt/ (US).
Words near pratt in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: pratt (page history and authors); Pratt (page history and authors); PRATT (page history and authors); prat (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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