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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.

prat (plural prats)

  1. (now Scotland) A cunning or mischievous trick; a prank, a joke. [from 10th c.]

cunning or mischievous trick

prat (comparative more prat, superlative most prat)

  1. (obsolete) Cunning, astute. [13th–17th c.]

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

prat (plural prats)

  1. (slang) A buttock, or the buttocks; a person's bottom. [from 16th c.]
    • 1608, Thomas Dekker, The Canters Dictionarie in The Belman of London (second part Lanthorne and Candlelight)
      Pratt, a Buttock.

    • 1707, John Shirley, “The Maunder's Praise of his Strowling Mort”, in The Triumph of Wit:

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

    • 1952, Leonard Bishop, Down All Your Streets, page 218:

      Burt shook his head, wanting to tell Mac what a pain in the prat he was when he went on a take, but instead, repeated his instruction, keeping his voice at a whisper, moving his fingertips along the table […]

    • 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 5:

      Mungo didn't like their attitude. Nor did he like exposing his prat in mixed company.

  2. (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, slang) A fool, contemptible person. [from 20th c.]

    • 2023 June 29, Metro, London, page 10, column 3:

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

  3. (slang) The female genitals. [from 17th c.]
    • 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
      Than the Viceroy's niece,
      Who has also more fur on her prat."
    • 1984 John Murray, ed, Panurge, Vol 1–3, p. 39:
      "...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."

    • 2005, Sherrie Seibert Goff, The Arms of Quirinus‎[1], iUniverse, page 135:

      "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."

  • pratt, in Sex-Lexis.com by Farlex.

From Latin prātum. First attested in the 14th century.[1]

prat m (plural prats)

  1. meadow
  1. ^ “prat”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025

Germanic, cognate with praten (“to talk”), pret (“fun”) and English prat (“trick, prank”).

prat (comparative pratter, superlative pratst)

  1. (used with op) focused, bent, fixated
  2. (obsolete) proud, haughty, arrogant
Declension of prat
uninflected prat
inflected pratte
comparative pratter
positive comparative superlative
predicative/adverbial prat pratter het pratst
het pratste
indefinite m./f. sing. pratte prattere pratste
n. sing. prat pratter pratste
plural pratte prattere pratste
definite pratte prattere pratste
partitive prats pratters —

prat f (plural pratten, diminutive pratje n)

  1. a pride, arrogance
  2. the act of pouting or sulking

prat

  1. supine of praś

From Middle Low German or Low German.

prat m (definite singular praten, indefinite plural prater, definite plural pratene)
prat n (definite singular pratet, indefinite plural prat, definite plural prata or pratene)

  1. chat, talk

prat

  1. imperative of prate

From Middle Low German or Low German.

prat m (definite singular praten, indefinite plural pratar, definite plural pratane)
prat n (definite singular pratet, indefinite plural prat, definite plural prata)

  1. chat, talk

From Old Occitan prat, from Latin prātum. Cognate with Catalan prat, Spanish prado, French pré, Italian prato.

prat m (plural prats)

  1. meadow

Borrowed from Italian prato (“meadow”), from Latin prātum. Most likely borrowed in 19th century.

prat n (plural praturi)

  1. (regional) hayfield
    Synonyms: fâneață, fânaț, cositură, ceair
  2. (regional, rare) meadow
    Synonyms: pajiște, livadă

From Proto-Germanic *prattuz. Compare Dutch praat and English prate.

prat n

  1. talk, speech, conversation