prat

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /pɹat/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A cunning or mischievous trick; a prank, a joke. Scotland
  2. A buttock, or the buttocks; a person's bottom. slang
    — Pratt, a Buttock.
  3. A fool, contemptible person. Commonwealth,Ireland,UK,slang
    — Those protestors will have achieved nothing good. They are stupid prats.
  4. The female genitals. slang
    — "She's a far better piece Than the Viceroy's niece, Who has also more fur on her prat."
形容词 adj.
  1. Cunning, astute. obsolete

词形变化

prats plural pratt alternative more prat comparative most prat superlative pratt alternative prats plural pratt alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
prat about prat around prat boy prat digger pratfall prattery prattish pratty

词源

词源 1
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.
词源 2
Unknown. Perhaps a specialised use of Etymology 1 (see above).
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