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
- layperson
- lay reader
- layshaft
- lay siege to
- lay sister
- lay someone low
- lay someone off
- lay someone open to
- lay someone out
- lay someone/thing to rest
- lay someone up
- lay something aside
- lay something at someone's door
- lay something bare
- lay something down
- lay something in/up
- lay something off
- lay something on
- lay something on the table
- lay something on thick (or with a trowel)
- lay something out
- lay something (to) waste
- lay something up
- lay store by
- Layton