Prat vs Praty - What's the difference?
prat | praty |
(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."
As nouns the difference between prat and praty
is that prat is a cunning or mischievous trick; a prank, a joke while praty is potato.As an adjective prat
is cunning, astute.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. ----