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"ref": "1608, Thomas Dekker, The Canters Dictionarie in The Belman of London (second part Lanthorne and Candlelight)",
"text": "Pratt, a Buttock."
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"ref": "1707, John Shirley, “The Maunder's Praise of his Strowling Mort”, in The Triumph of Wit",
"text": "No gentry mort hath prats like thine, / No cove e'er wap'd with such a one.",
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"ref": "1952, Leonard Bishop, Down All Your Streets, page 218",
"text": "Burt shook his head, wanting to tell Mac what a pain in the prat he was when he went on a take, but instead, repeated his instruction, keeping his voice at a whisper, moving his fingertips along the table […]",
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"ref": "1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 5",
"text": "Mungo didn't like their attitude. Nor did he like exposing his prat in mixed company.",
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"ref": "1967 (sourced to 1942), William A. Schwartz, The Limerick: 1700 Examples with Notes, Variants and Examples Vol 1, Greenleaf Classics 1967, p. 124",
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"ref": "1984 John Murray, ed, Panurge, Vol 1–3, p. 39",
"text": "...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."
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"ref": "2005, Sherrie Seibert Goff, The Arms of Quirinus, iUniverse, page 135",
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"(now Scotland) A cunning or mischievous trick; a prank, a joke."
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "cunning or mischievous trick",
"word": "jekku"
}
],
"word": "prat"
}
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"Cunning, astute."
],
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"(obsolete) Cunning, astute."
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"word": "pratfall"
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{
"word": "prat about"
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{
"word": "prat around"
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{
"word": "prat boy"
},
{
"word": "prat digger"
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{
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"ref": "1608, Thomas Dekker, The Canters Dictionarie in The Belman of London (second part Lanthorne and Candlelight)",
"text": "Pratt, a Buttock."
},
{
"ref": "1707, John Shirley, “The Maunder's Praise of his Strowling Mort”, in The Triumph of Wit",
"text": "No gentry mort hath prats like thine, / No cove e'er wap'd with such a one.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1952, Leonard Bishop, Down All Your Streets, page 218",
"text": "Burt shook his head, wanting to tell Mac what a pain in the prat he was when he went on a take, but instead, repeated his instruction, keeping his voice at a whisper, moving his fingertips along the table […]",
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},
{
"ref": "1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 5",
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}
],
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],
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},
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"English terms with quotations",
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{
"ref": "2023 June 29, Metro, London, page 10, column 3",
"text": "Those protestors will have achieved nothing good. They are stupid prats.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A fool, contemptible person."
],
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],
[
"contemptible",
"contemptible"
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"(UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, slang) A fool, contemptible person."
],
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"Ireland",
"New-Zealand",
"UK",
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{
"ref": "1967 (sourced to 1942), William A. Schwartz, The Limerick: 1700 Examples with Notes, Variants and Examples Vol 1, Greenleaf Classics 1967, p. 124",
"text": "\"She's a far better piece\nThan the Viceroy's niece,\nWho has also more fur on her prat.\""
},
{
"ref": "1984 John Murray, ed, Panurge, Vol 1–3, p. 39",
"text": "...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."
},
{
"ref": "2005, Sherrie Seibert Goff, The Arms of Quirinus, iUniverse, page 135",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"The female genitals."
],
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[
"female",
"female"
],
[
"genitals",
"genitals"
]
],
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"(slang) The female genitals."
],
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"slang"
]
}
],
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{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "zadnik",
"sense": "buttocks",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "задник"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "buttocks",
"word": "peppu"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "fool",
"word": "torvi"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "female genitals",
"word": "pillu"
}
],
"word": "prat"
}
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