prat
Americannoun
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prats
plural
noun
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Etymology
Origin of prat
First recorded in 1560–70; origin uncertain
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He said: "Everything seemed to be legit, but I got turned over, I feel a bit of a prat."
From BBC ● Jan. 24, 2025
And so I got him Ugg slippers as a prat gift.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 19, 2023
And Conservative MP Tim Loughton said Mr Hancock had been an "absolute prat" and losing the Tory whip was "the least he deserves".
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2022
In 2010’s Boy, for example, Waititi played an absent father in a nowhere coastal New Zealand town whose hero-worshipping son doesn’t realise what a self-serving prat he is.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 26, 2019
“Ross Wilcox's a prat, not a poet. But if you're going to suggest that I write a poem to Dawn Madden, no way. I'd be the village laughingstock.”
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
These privileged prats get their comeuppance, sure, but the moral lands with a whimper rather than a bang.
From New York Times ● Aug. 4, 2022
My job is to write about idiots, imbeciles, ne’er-do-wells and prats.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 12, 2016
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