prat
/pɹat/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.59 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A cunning or mischievous trick; a prank, a joke.
Example Sentences
- "Pratt, a Buttock."
- "No gentry mort hath prats like thine, / No cove e'er wap'd with such a one."
- "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 […]"
- "Mungo didn't like their attitude. Nor did he like exposing his prat in mixed company."
- "Those protestors will have achieved nothing good. They are stupid prats."
- ""She's a far better piece Than the Viceroy's niece, Who has also more fur on her prat.""
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.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: prat, præt, *prattu, *prattuz, *brodno-
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /pɹat/