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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on; "he deserves a good kick in the butt"; "are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?" [syn: buttocks, nates, arse, butt, backside, bum, buns, can, fundament, hindquarters, hind end, keister, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, stern, seat, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush, bottom, behind, derriere, fanny, ass]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: probably from argot prat buttocks Date: circa 1961 British a stupid or foolish person

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. sl. 1 Brit. a silly or foolish person. 2 the buttocks. Etymology: 16th-c. cant (in sense 2): orig. unkn.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(prats) If you describe someone as a prat, you are saying in an unkind way that you think that they are very stupid or foolish. (BRIT INFORMAL) What's that prat doing out there now? N-COUNT [disapproval]

Moby Thesaurus

arse, artifice, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, can, gimmick, maneuver, play, ploy, rear, ruse, shenanigan, stratagem, tail, wile