prat
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of prat
First recorded in 1560–70; origin uncertain
Example Sentences
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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 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
Let’s be honest: Late-November Thanksgiving is more often than not an inconvenient pain in the prat.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 18, 2020
That’s odd that you’d say that when the guy’s a complete prat, that I’m somehow living vicariously through him.
From New York Times • Feb. 3, 2017
She immediately forgot the names of the first four: a gangly, haughty boy; a hulking brute; a disdainful runt of a man; and a sniveling, hawk-nosed prat who claimed he had an affinity for knives.
From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas
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