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Prat vs Keister - What's the difference?

prat | keister |

In lang=en terms the difference between prat and keister

is that prat is the female genitals while keister is a suitcase; a satchel.

As nouns the difference between prat and keister

is that prat is a cunning or mischievous trick; a prank, a joke while keister is the buttocks.

As an adjective prat

is cunning, astute.

prat

English

Alternative forms

* pratt

Etymology 1

From (etyl) prat, from (etyl) . Related to (l).

Noun

(en noun)
    • Related terms
    * (l)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Cunning, astute.

    • Etymology 2

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

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (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, 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 * See also
    Derived terms
    * pratfall * prat about * prattery (rare) * prattish (rare)

    Anagrams

    * part * rapt * tarp * trap

    References

    * pratt'', in Sex-Lexis.com by Farlex. ----

    keister

    English

    Alternative forms

    *keester

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (slang) The buttocks.
  • (slang, dated) A safe, a strongbox.
  • *1953 , Richard S. Prather, Too many crooks , page 100
    • ? " [...] The four hundred's yours to take a keister for me. Any cash you find in the box is yours."
    ? "Four hundred, huh? Don't seem like much. Think there'd be anything in the keister ?"
  • (slang) A suitcase; a satchel.
  • *1942 , Billboard, 29 Aug 1942 — page 63
  • *:Tripods, keister and loud talk don't make a pitchman any more than do fine feathers make fine birds.
  • *1963 , Grace Snyder, Nellie Irene Snyder Yost, No Time on My Hands , page 37
  • *:Sometimes Mama was too busy to make the daily rounds of the draws and pockets, in which case she gave us the keister — an old leather satchel used, in its better days to carry the baby's "didies" in — and sent us to bring in the eggs.

    • Anagrams

    * English words not following the I before E except after C rule