(now Scotland) A cunning or mischievous trick; a prank, a joke.

(obsolete) Cunning, astute.

(slang) A buttock, or the buttocks; a person's bottom. / (UK, slang) A fool. / (slang) The female genitals.

plural of prat

(slang) A pickpocket. / (slang) a petty criminal. / (slang) Someone who brings unpopular members of a social group to a social gathering, or seems to always have a rather obnoxious partner.

(informal) To waste time doing pointless or silly things / (informal) To fail to do something correctly, and so consider the time to be wasted.

plural of prat digger

(Britain, intransitive, informal) To behave foolishly.

(transitive, intransitive) To speak incessantly and in an inconsequential or childish manner; to babble.

Silly, childish talk; babble.