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dan•di•prat
(dan′dē prat′),USA pronunciation n.
- Currencya silver coin of 16th-century England, equal to about twopence.
- [Archaic.]
- a diminutive person;
a dwarf, pygmy, or midget. - a person of small or childish mind;
a silly, finicky, or puerile person. - a child.
- a diminutive person;
- origin, originally uncertain 1510–20