Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Slang The buttocks.
- noun Chiefly British Slang A person who is incompetent and stupid.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A trick.
- noun The buttock.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A cunning or mischievous
trick ; a piece ofdeceit ; a fraudulentscheme . - noun UK, slang A
fool . - noun slang The
female genitals . - adjective
cunning ,astute
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Reading btweeen his lines it also looks as though Osborne is moribund; an inside Tory source is quoted as describing him as a 'prat' - hardly the credentials for Tory Chancellor, even though that would follow NuLab's tradition for the past decade or so.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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So your grandson's tone of voice implied that he'd call you a "prat" -- which of his languages does that come from presumably, not Spanish, and what does it mean?
On being linguistically defeated DC 2008
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I still haven’t seen hide nor hair of a blue uniform, and some prat is now even taking pictures of where we leave our wheelie bins.
Living In A Police State – (Thank Goodness). « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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Yes we do Frank you prat, which is why you're now a cripple and the rest of us are not.
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No matter the genre, a prat is a prat, a pompous ponce a pompous ponce.
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-- To the rule laid down in the preceding adhikara/n/a the so-called pratîkopâsanas, i.e. those meditations in which Brahman is viewed under a symbol or outward manifestation (as, for instance, mano brahmety upâsîta) constitute an exception, i.e. the devotee is not to consider the pratîka as constituting his own Self.
The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1 George Thibaut 1881
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Being a prat is a state of mind and not transport-specific.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Being a prat is a state of mind and not transport-specific.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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By the time we got back to the hotel I had been labelled a prat for my careless approach to not applying sun tan lotion evenly
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010
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The other being the obvious one of being called a prat a lot ..
X-bit labs 2009
oroboros commented on the word prat
Tarp in reverse.
July 22, 2007