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prat, n.3
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DRAFT REVISION July 2007
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Forms: 15—16 18— prat, 15—16 19— pratt.
[Origin unknown.]
2. Brit. slang. An idiot, a fool; an ineffectual or contemptible person.
1955 E. TREVOR Big Pick-up iv. 62 Come dahn aht of it [sc. a tree], Milly, you stupid prat!
1964 J. ORTON Entertaining Mr Sloane (1973) i. 22 Go on, you superannuated old prat!
1968 M. BRAGG Without City Wall xii. 130 He had been looking for the exact word to describe David and now he found it:
prat.
1973 J. WAINWRIGHT Pride of Pigs 32 Harris was a bit of a pompous prat.
1974 N. FREELING Dressing of Diamond 204 Want to get an eyeful, do you, dirty-minded prat that you are.
1980 J. WAINWRIGHT Eye of Beholder 18 The pompous prat. The I-know-people-in-high-places nut.
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