prat
A cunning or mischievous trickA cunning or mischievous trick; a prank, a joke.
» Don't act like a prat with me.
Не веди себя со мной как придурок. — odexed
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4 senses(Scotland)A cunning or mischievous trick; a prank, a joke.
(slang)A buttock, or the buttocks; a person's bottom.
(Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, slang)A fool, contemptible person.
(slang)The female genitals.
- the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
Examples
2 sentencesDon't act like a prat with me.
ruНе веди себя со мной как придурок. — odexed
What a prat that Tom is!
deDieser Tom ist so ein Trottel! — Pfirsichbaeumchen
Origin
From Middle English prat, from Old English præt, prætt (“trick, prank, craft, art, wile”),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).
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