as in idiot
a stupid person
I need competent people for this job, and all they send me are prats
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Recent Examples of prat
As Ray Winstone might say, what a prat.
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Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 29 Mar. 2022
Through it all, however, the gal has retained a sort of grand hauteur, even while prat-falling into a bush.
—Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 24 Mar. 2022
At times Javed’s insistence on reciting lyrics to other people becomes irritating (his girlfriend, a white anti-Thatcher campaigner who did not feature in the book, tells him off for being a prat).
—J.t., The Economist, 15 Aug. 2019
Maybe at a Ferrari Club meeting with all the other prats in hats.
—Dan Neil, WSJ, 14 Sep. 2018
So, enter me, a twenty-something who hopes to go from prat to prim over the course of a two-hour lunch, via Meier's social and dining course.
—Danielle Fox, ELLE Decor, 15 Dec. 2017
Chris Vettel is a pricelessly clueless but endearingly cheery aristocratic prat as Hope’s fiance Sir Evelyn Oakleigh, and Ali Lane is hysterically agitated as Hope’s frequently hoodwinked mother.
—Sam Hurwitt, The Mercury News, 2 Feb. 2017
Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 29 Mar. 2022
Through it all, however, the gal has retained a sort of grand hauteur, even while prat-falling into a bush.
—Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 24 Mar. 2022
At times Javed’s insistence on reciting lyrics to other people becomes irritating (his girlfriend, a white anti-Thatcher campaigner who did not feature in the book, tells him off for being a prat).
—J.t., The Economist, 15 Aug. 2019
Maybe at a Ferrari Club meeting with all the other prats in hats.
—Dan Neil, WSJ, 14 Sep. 2018
So, enter me, a twenty-something who hopes to go from prat to prim over the course of a two-hour lunch, via Meier's social and dining course.
—Danielle Fox, ELLE Decor, 15 Dec. 2017
Chris Vettel is a pricelessly clueless but endearingly cheery aristocratic prat as Hope’s fiance Sir Evelyn Oakleigh, and Ali Lane is hysterically agitated as Hope’s frequently hoodwinked mother.
—Sam Hurwitt, The Mercury News, 2 Feb. 2017
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“Prat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prat. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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