Prat vs. Sprat — What's the Difference?

(Slang) The buttocks.

Sprat is the common name applied to a group of forage fish belonging to the genus Sprattus in the family Clupeidae. The term also is applied to a number of other small sprat-like forage fish (Clupeoides, Clupeonella, Corica, Ehirava, Hyperlophus, Microthrissa, Nannothrissa, Platanichthys, Ramnogaster, Rhinosardinia, and Stolothrissa).

Chiefly British Slang A person who is incompetent and stupid.

Any of various small marine food fishes of the genus Sprattus, especially S. sprattus of the northeast Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean and Baltic Seas, eaten fresh or smoked and often canned as a sardine. Also called brisling.

A cunning or mischievous trick; a prank, a joke.

Any of various other fishes of the family Clupeidae, such as a young herring.

(slang) A buttock, or the buttocks; a person's bottom.

Any of various small, herring-like, marine fish in the genus Sprattus, in the family Clupeidae.

A fool.

Any of various similar fish of other genera.

(slang) The female genitals.

(by extension) Anything petty or insignificant.

(obsolete) Cunning, astute.

A sixpence.

The fleshy part of the human body that you sit on;

A small European herring (Clupea sprattus) closely allied to the common herring and the pilchard; - called also garvie. The name is also applied to small herring of different kinds.

Small fatty European fish; usually smoked or canned like sardines

Small herring processed like a sardine