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Definition of prat in English: pratnoun pratpræt informal 1British An incompetent or stupid person; an idiot. Example sentencesExamples - He'd been a stupid prat to even believe he could take her on all those years ago.
- Did I really want to go public on making a complete prat of myself?
- Anyone who drives along the single carriageway section of the A64 will have noticed a leap in the number of prats at the wheel.
- One of the quotes attributed to me makes me sound a bit of a prat (when I catch myself saying that the blog has lately been ‘more to do with a desire to express myself’), but I can't really complain as I did actually say that.
- I hope that's right, otherwise I've made a complete prat of myself!
- I do not want to think of metropolitan prats in a marketing department.
- I thought it was a thing only prats used as an excuse for not writing: and then it hit me; I physically could not put pen to paper.
- Apparently this kind of thing is very common these days (there are obviously a lot of prats like me).
- The biggest problem is that when you drive this car fast you feel like a complete prat.
- What a bunch of pompous, over-paid prats they have made themselves look.
- Great, now I will be stuck with that annoying prat.
- Because it's not a big deal whether I get a decent job or whether I spend my life in the servitude of dimwitted prats, getting people coffee and answering phones.
- My dad is practically in love with him, the stupid prat.
- The firemen who put out this mess have far better things to do that to chase around after mindless little prats like you.
- ‘We are both going to feel a right pair of prats but we don't mind because it's for a good cause,’ she said.
- Finding him an annoying prat is no excuse for me to be in denial.
- I felt like a prat for failing the tests and generally feel stupid at underestimating the whole thing - and what was it?
- How was she going to live with that annoying prat as her bodyguard?
- Unfortunately, the prats who drew up the accompanying map forgot to include three of Scotland's biggest, busiest and most lucrative harbours, namely Grangemouth, Leith and Rosyth.
- I admit, I always used to think he was a bit of a prat.
Synonyms idiot, ass, halfwit, nincompoop, blockhead, buffoon, dunce, dolt, ignoramus, cretin, imbecile, dullard, moron, simpleton, clod 2A person's buttocks. Synonyms buttocks, behind, backside, rear, rear end, seat, haunches, cheeks
Origin Mid 16th century (in sense 2): of unknown origin. sense 1 dates from the 1960s. Rhymes at, bat, brat, cat, chat, cravat, drat, expat, fat, flat, frat, gat, gnat, hat, hereat, high-hat, howzat, lat, mat, matt, matte, Montserrat, Nat, outsat, pat, pit-a-pat, plait, plat, Rabat, rat, rat-tat, Sadat, sat, scat, Sebat, shabbat, shat, skat, slat, spat, splat, sprat, stat, Surat, tat, that, thereat, tit-for-tat, vat, whereat Definition of prat in US English: pratnounpratpræt informal 1British An incompetent, stupid, or foolish person; an idiot. Example sentencesExamples - ‘We are both going to feel a right pair of prats but we don't mind because it's for a good cause,’ she said.
- Because it's not a big deal whether I get a decent job or whether I spend my life in the servitude of dimwitted prats, getting people coffee and answering phones.
- He'd been a stupid prat to even believe he could take her on all those years ago.
- One of the quotes attributed to me makes me sound a bit of a prat (when I catch myself saying that the blog has lately been ‘more to do with a desire to express myself’), but I can't really complain as I did actually say that.
- Unfortunately, the prats who drew up the accompanying map forgot to include three of Scotland's biggest, busiest and most lucrative harbours, namely Grangemouth, Leith and Rosyth.
- The firemen who put out this mess have far better things to do that to chase around after mindless little prats like you.
- My dad is practically in love with him, the stupid prat.
- I thought it was a thing only prats used as an excuse for not writing: and then it hit me; I physically could not put pen to paper.
- Apparently this kind of thing is very common these days (there are obviously a lot of prats like me).
- Did I really want to go public on making a complete prat of myself?
- Finding him an annoying prat is no excuse for me to be in denial.
- I hope that's right, otherwise I've made a complete prat of myself!
- How was she going to live with that annoying prat as her bodyguard?
- I admit, I always used to think he was a bit of a prat.
- What a bunch of pompous, over-paid prats they have made themselves look.
- I felt like a prat for failing the tests and generally feel stupid at underestimating the whole thing - and what was it?
- Anyone who drives along the single carriageway section of the A64 will have noticed a leap in the number of prats at the wheel.
- Great, now I will be stuck with that annoying prat.
- The biggest problem is that when you drive this car fast you feel like a complete prat.
- I do not want to think of metropolitan prats in a marketing department.
Synonyms idiot, ass, halfwit, nincompoop, blockhead, buffoon, dunce, dolt, ignoramus, cretin, imbecile, dullard, moron, simpleton, clod 2A person's buttocks. Synonyms buttocks, behind, backside, rear, rear end, seat, haunches, cheeks
Origin Mid 16th century (in prat (sense 2)): of unknown origin. prat (sense 1) dates from the 1960s. |