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From: Peter Amsden <>
Subject: Re: [SoG] Feeling like a prat
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2001 13:04:15 +0000
References: <009401c0a30e$e66014e0$02abec91@pickard>

Pickard Trepess - Hunimex wrote:
>
> Recently a lister mentioned that (s)he felt like a prat for
> forgetting something. As one of my relatives was named PRATT, can
> anyone shed light on the origin of this expression ??
>
> Did it come from someone so named, or from the ME/MDu word prater ??
>
> Any clues

According to my dictionary of slang:

Prat, Pratt:
Backside, buttocks.
A word dating from the 16th century or earlier which is currently an
inoffensive, if rare, synonym for bum, etc. [encountered in the compound
'pratfall']


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