"prannet" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: prannets [plural]
Etymology: See pranny. Head templates: {{en-noun}} prannet (plural prannets)
  1. (informal) A stupid person; a prat. Tags: informal
    Sense id: en-prannet-en-noun-mEalR4do Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

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  "etymology_text": "See pranny.",
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    {
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    }
  ],
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          "text": "He tried to dry his phone in the toaster. What a prannet!",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1977, Ian Dury, “Billericay Dickie”:",
          "text": "I'd rendezvous with Janet\nQuite near the Isle of Thanet\nShe looked more like a gannet\nShe wasn't 'alf a prannet",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1997 October 15, George Gimarc, Post Punk Diary: 1980-1982, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 249:",
          "text": "Robbi Millar in Sounds says it's, \"... utterly tasty. […] maybe even those dull prannets down at the Beeb will see some good in it.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012 October 16, Will Self, The Sweet Smell of Psychosis: A Novella, Grove/Atlantic, Inc., →ISBN:",
          "text": "Anyways, this prannet goes in, trudges all the way up three flights of pokertunity. So I'm thinking I'm quids in – because that's the way I'd figured it – when he turns tail and comes barrelling all the way back down again,[…]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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        "(informal) A stupid person; a prat."
      ],
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        "informal"
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    }
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          "ref": "1977, Ian Dury, “Billericay Dickie”:",
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        {
          "ref": "1997 October 15, George Gimarc, Post Punk Diary: 1980-1982, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 249:",
          "text": "Robbi Millar in Sounds says it's, \"... utterly tasty. […] maybe even those dull prannets down at the Beeb will see some good in it.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012 October 16, Will Self, The Sweet Smell of Psychosis: A Novella, Grove/Atlantic, Inc., →ISBN:",
          "text": "Anyways, this prannet goes in, trudges all the way up three flights of pokertunity. So I'm thinking I'm quids in – because that's the way I'd figured it – when he turns tail and comes barrelling all the way back down again,[…]",
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        "(informal) A stupid person; a prat."
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