prat
Plural: prats
Noun
- The buttocks; often used disparagingly.
- the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
- A cunning or mischievous trick; a prank, a joke.
- A buttock, or the buttocks; a person's bottom.
- A fool, contemptible person.
- The female genitals.
Adj
- Cunning, astute.
Examples
- Accidentally playing a low-scoring word on a bonus square felt like a total PRAT move.
Origin / 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.
Synonyms
arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush
Scrabble Score: 6
prat: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordprat: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
prat: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary