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
Ut pratin utpate modiatumsan henit wisl ulla faccum num autpationum vel doloreetue minci tatet ute dipisci elis aut prat.
—Melanie Feuk, Houston Chronicle, 26 Feb. 2018
Pit, si et aut ver sit venisl utpatin heniat dolobore dio odolor ad et eumsandigna commy num veratem quam, secte dolore corper accummy nullummod dolesto et prat, quat adignibh esectet praesequisi.
—Melanie Feuk, Houston Chronicle, 26 Feb. 2018
Pit, si et aut ver sit venisl utpatin heniat dolobore dio odolor ad et eumsandigna commy num veratem quam, secte dolore corper accummy nullummod dolesto et prat, quat adignibh esectet praesequisi.
—Melanie Feuk, Houston Chronicle, 26 Feb. 2018
Ut pratin utpate modiatumsan henit wisl ulla faccum num autpationum vel doloreetue minci tatet ute dipisci elis aut prat.
—Melanie Feuk, Houston Chronicle, 26 Feb. 2018
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
Ut pratin utpate modiatumsan henit wisl ulla faccum num autpationum vel doloreetue minci tatet ute dipisci elis aut prat.
—Melanie Feuk, Houston Chronicle, 26 Feb. 2018
Pit, si et aut ver sit venisl utpatin heniat dolobore dio odolor ad et eumsandigna commy num veratem quam, secte dolore corper accummy nullummod dolesto et prat, quat adignibh esectet praesequisi.
—Melanie Feuk, Houston Chronicle, 26 Feb. 2018
Pit, si et aut ver sit venisl utpatin heniat dolobore dio odolor ad et eumsandigna commy num veratem quam, secte dolore corper accummy nullummod dolesto et prat, quat adignibh esectet praesequisi.
—Melanie Feuk, Houston Chronicle, 26 Feb. 2018
Ut pratin utpate modiatumsan henit wisl ulla faccum num autpationum vel doloreetue minci tatet ute dipisci elis aut prat.
—Melanie Feuk, Houston Chronicle, 26 Feb. 2018
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“Prat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prat. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.
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