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English

Etymology

From Middle English praten; related to Dutch praten (“to talk, chat”), Low German praten, Danish prate, Swedish prata (“to talk, prate”), Faroese práta (“to talk, gossip”), Icelandic prata; all ultimately from Proto-Germanic *prattuz (“idle or boastful talk, deceit”), from Proto-Indo-European *brodno- (“to wander, rove”). Cognate with Polish bredzi? (“to rave, jabber”), Latvian brad?t (“to talk nonsense”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?e?t/
• Rhymes: -e?t

Noun

prate (countable and uncountable, plural prates)

1. Talk to little purpose; trifling talk; unmeaningful loquacity.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

prate (third-person singular simple present prates, present participle prating, simple past and past participle prated)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To talk much and to little purpose; to be loquacious; to speak foolishly.

   Synonyms: blabber; see also Thesaurus:prattle, Thesaurus:chatter

   • What nonsense would the fool, thy master, prate, / When thou, his knave, canst talk at such a rate!

Translations

References

• prate, in Compact Oxford English Dictionary.
• prate, in The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language.

Anagrams

• Peart, Petra, apert, apter, parte, pater, peart, petar, petra, preta, reapt, repat, retap, taper, trape, treap

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

prate

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of praten

Anagrams

• pater

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pr??t?/

Verb

prate (imperative prat, present tense prater, passive prates, simple past and past participle prata or pratet, present participle pratende)

1. to chat (om / about)

Derived terms

• pratsom

References

• “prate” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

West Frisian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pra?t?/

Verb

prate

1. to talk

Inflection

Further reading

• “prate”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

English

Alternative forms

• pratt

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /p?at/

• Rhymes: -æt

Etymology 1

From Middle English prat, from Old English præt, prætt (“trick, prank, craft, art, wile”), 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.

Noun

prat (plural prats)

1. (now Scotland) A cunning or mischievous trick; a prank, a joke. [from 10th c.]

Related terms

• pretty

Translations

Adjective

prat (comparative more prat, superlative most prat)

1. (obsolete) Cunning, astute. [13th-17th c.]

Etymology 2

Origin unknown. Perhaps a specialised note of Etymology 1 (see above).

Noun

prat (plural prats)

1. (slang) A buttock, or the buttocks; a person's bottom. [from 16th c.]
   • Thomas Dekker, 1608, The Canters Dictionarie in The Belman of London (second part Lanthorne and Candlelight)

     Pratt, a Buttock.

   • 1952, Leonard Bishop, Down All Your Streets (page 218)

     Burt shook his head, wanting to tell Mac what a pain in the prat he was when he went on a take, but instead, repeated his instruction, keeping his voice at a whisper, moving his fingertips along the table […]

   • 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin 2006, p. 5:

     Mungo didn't like their attitude. Nor did he like exposing his prat in mixed company.

2. (Britain, slang) A fool. [from 20th c.]
3. (slang) The female genitals.
   • 1967 (sourced to 1942), William A. Schwartz, The Limerick: 1700 Examples with Notes, Variants and Examples Vol 1, Greenleaf Classics 1967, p. 124:

     "She's a far better piece
     Than the Viceroy's niece,
     Who has also more fur on her prat."

   • 1984 John Murray, ed, Panurge, Vol 1–3, p. 39:

     "...they would kidnap a girl and take her back to their camp where they would pull down her knickers, hoping to find hairs on her prat."

   • 2005 Sherrie Seibert Goff, The Arms of Quirinus, iUniverse 2005, p. 135:

     "My prat was sore from the unfamiliar activities of the night before, but my virgin bleeding had ceased, and we rode most of the day in that unworldly haze that comes with lack of sleep."

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:fool
• See also Thesaurus:buttocks

Derived terms

• pratfall
• prat about
• prattery (rare)
• prattish (rare)

Translations

References

• pratt, in Sex-Lexis.com by Farlex.

Anagrams

• TRAP, part, part., patr-, rapt, rtPA, tarp, trap

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin pr?tum, attested from the 14th century.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?p?at/
• Rhymes: -at

Noun

prat m (plural prats)

1. meadow

Derived terms

• comí de prat
• praderia

References

Further reading

• “prat” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “prat” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “prat” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Dutch

Etymology

Germanic, cognate with praten (“to talk”), pret (“fun”) and English prat (“trick, prank”).

Pronunciation

Adjective

prat (comparative pratter, superlative pratst)

1. (used with op) focused, bent, fixated
2. (obsolete) proud, haughty, arrogant

Inflection

Derived terms

• pratachtig
• pratheid

Noun

prat f (plural pratten, diminutive pratje n)

1. A pride, arrogance
2. the act of pouting or sulking

Derived terms

• pratsch
• prattig

Anagrams

• trap

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [prat]

Verb

prat

1. supine of pra?

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Middle Low German or Low German.

Noun

prat m (definite singular praten, indefinite plural prater, definite plural pratene)
prat n (definite singular pratet, indefinite plural prat, definite plural prata or pratene)

1. chat, talk

Derived terms

• nettprat

Etymology 2

Verb

prat

1. imperative of prate

References

• “prat” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Middle Low German or Low German

Noun

prat m (definite singular praten, indefinite plural pratar, definite plural pratane)
prat n (definite singular pratet, indefinite plural prat, definite plural prata)

1. chat, talk

Derived terms

• nettprat

References

• “prat” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Occitan

Etymology

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Latin pr?tum. Cognate with Catalan prat, Spanish prado, French pré, Italian prato.

Pronunciation

• (Languedoc) IPA^(key): /p?at/

Noun

prat m (plural prats)

1. meadow

Derived terms

• safran dels prats
• apradar
• apradir
• pradariá
• pradèl
• pradelet
• pradelon
• pradièra

Romanian

Etymology

From Italian prato (“meadow”), from Latin pr?tum. Most likely borrowed in 19th century.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /prat/
• Rhymes: -at

Noun

prat n (plural praturi)

1. (regional) hayfield
2. (regional, rare) meadow

Declension

Synonyms

• (hayfield): fânea??, fâna?, cositur?, ceair
• (meadow): paji?te, livad?

Swedish

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *prattuz. Compare Dutch praat and English prate.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pr??t/

Noun

prat n

1. Speech, talk

Related terms

• prata (verb)
• pratminus

See also

• konversation c

Anagrams

• part, part.