Prat vs Gossip - What's the difference?
prat | gossip |
(slang) A buttock, or the buttocks; a person's bottom.
*Thomas Dekker , 1608 , The Canters Dictionarie'' in ''The Belman of London'' (second part ''Lanthorne and Candlelight )
*:Pratt , a Buttock.
*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.
(UK, slang) A fool.
(slang) The female genitals.
*1967 (sourced to 1942), William A. Schwartz,
*:"She's a far better piece
Than the Viceroy's niece,
Who has also more fur on her prat."
*1984 John Murray, ed,
*:"...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,
*:"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."
Someone who likes to talk about someone else’s private or personal business.
Idle talk about someone’s private or personal matters, especially someone not present.
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*:"I ought to arise and go forth with timbrels and with dances; but, do you know, I am not inclined to revels? There has been a little—just a very little bit too much festivity so far …. Not that I don't adore dinners and gossip and dances; not that I do not love to pervade bright and glittering places."
A genre in contemporary media, usually focused on the personal affairs of celebrities.
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*:Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence. She devoured with more avidity than she had her food those pretentiously phrased chronicles of the snobocracydistilling therefrom an acid envy that robbed her napoleon of all its savour.
(lb) A sponsor; a godfather or godmother.
*(John Selden) (1584-1654)
*:Should a great lady that was invited to be a gossip , in her place send her kitchen maid, 'twould be ill taken.
To talk about someone else's private or personal business, especially in a way that spreads the information.
To talk idly.
As nouns the difference between prat and gossip
is that prat is meadow while gossip is someone who likes to talk about someone else’s private or personal business.As a verb gossip is
to talk about someone else's private or personal business, especially in a way that spreads the information.prat
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Alternative forms
* prattEtymology 1
From (etyl) prat, from (etyl) . Related to (l).Etymology 2
Origin unknown. Perhaps a specialised note of Etymology 1 (see above).Noun
(en noun)The Limerick: 1700 Examples with Notes, Variants and ExamplesVol 1, Greenleaf Classics 1967, p. 124:
Than the Viceroy's niece,
Who has also more fur on her prat."
Panurge, Vol 1–3, p. 39:
The Arms of Quirinus, iUniverse 2005, p. 135:
Synonyms
* See also * See alsoDerived terms
* pratfall * prat about * prattery (rare) * prattish (rare)Anagrams
* part * rapt * tarp * trapReferences
*pratt'', in Sex-Lexis.com by Farlex. ----