prannet

plural prannets

1. informalA stupid person; a prat.

   He tried to dry his phone in the toaster. What a prannet!

   3 more examples

   I'd rendezvous with Janet Quite near the Isle of Thanet She looked more like a gannet She wasn't 'alf a prannet

   1977, Ian Dury, “Billericay Dickie”

   Robbi Millar in Sounds says it's, "... utterly tasty. […] maybe even those dull prannets down at the Beeb will see some good in it."

   1997 October 15, George Gimarc, Post Punk Diary: 1980-1982, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 249

   Anyways, this prannet goes in, trudges all the way up three flights of pokertunity. So I'm thinking I'm quids in – because that's the way I'd figured it – when he turns tail and comes barrelling all the way back down again,[…]

   2012 October 16, Will Self, The Sweet Smell of Psychosis: A Novella, Grove/Atlantic, Inc., →ISBN