prat
/prat
/noun informal
1British An incompetent or stupid person; an idiot.My dad is practically in love with him, the stupid prat....
- I felt like a prat for failing the tests and generally feel stupid at underestimating the whole thing - and what was it?
- 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.
2A person’s buttocks.
Origin
Mid 16th century (in sense 2): of unknown origin. sense 1 dates from the 1960s.
Rhymes
- mountain soap
- Mountains of the Moon
- mountain sorrel
- mountain spiderwort
- mountain spinach
- Mountain State
- Mountain States
- mountain sumac
- mountain sweet
- mountain system
- mountain tallow
- mountain tea
- mountain thrush
- Mountain time
- mountain tobacco
- Dutch colonial
- Dutch courage
- Dutch doll
- Dutch door
- Dutch East India Company
- Dutch East Indies
- Dutch elm disease
- Dutchess County
- Dutch Guiana
- Dutch hoe