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prat

1 ENTRIES FOUND:
prat /ˈpræt/ noun
plural prats
prat
/ˈpræt/
noun
plural prats
Learner's definition of PRAT
[count] British, informal
: a stupid or foolish person傻瓜;笨蛋
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prat

noun

British
: a stupid or foolish person

Example Sentences

He acts like a real prat sometimes. I need competent people for this job, and all they send me are prats.
Recent Examples on the Web Through it all, however, the gal has retained a sort of grand hauteur, even while prat-falling into a bush. Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 24 Mar. 2022 At times Javed’s insistence on reciting lyrics to other people becomes irritating (his girlfriend, a white anti-Thatcher campaigner who did not feature in the book, tells him off for being a prat). J.t., The Economist, 15 Aug. 2019 Maybe at a Ferrari Club meeting with all the other prats in hats. Dan Neil, WSJ, 14 Sep. 2018 So, enter me, a twenty-something who hopes to go from prat to prim over the course of a two-hour lunch, via Meier's social and dining course. Danielle Fox, ELLE Decor, 15 Dec. 2017 Chris Vettel is a pricelessly clueless but endearingly cheery aristocratic prat as Hope’s fiance Sir Evelyn Oakleigh, and Ali Lane is hysterically agitated as Hope’s frequently hoodwinked mother. Sam Hurwitt, The Mercury News, 2 Feb. 2017

Word History

Etymology

probably from argot prat buttocks

First Known Use

1955, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of prat was in 1955
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