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Vinony

prat

noun

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /pɹat/

adj

Etymology: 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.

  1. Cunning, astute.

noun

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

  1. A buttock, or the buttocks; a person's bottom.

    “Pratt, a Buttock.”

    “No gentry mort hath prats like thine, / No cove e'er wap'd with such a one.”

  2. A fool, contemptible person.

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

  3. The female genitals.

    “"She's a far better piece Than the Viceroy's niece, Who has also more fur on her prat."”

    “...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.”