Pronto!

Sometimes it is used like this:
I need it done pronto!
Here pronto would mean 'Now' or really quickly.

I think it comes from Spanish where it means 'Soon'.
Interestingly you have used it as a noun as in 'A pronto'.
In that case, I don't know what it means as I have never seen it used that way in English.

In Spanish to have 'a pronto' means that one gets suddenly angry.

For instance, " Pablo has a very bad 'pronto' " means Pablo is easily bad-tempered, that he can talk not very polite, that he is not patient person. Really unbearable person that hypothetical Pablo .

In Uruguay ' pronto ' (without article) means to be ready and ¡pronto! is to encourage somebody to be ready.

My dictionary doesn't list it as a noun at all. Are you sure you've seen it used as one?

Kitkattail, it is not a noun, it is used as idiom, and yes, I am sure I am Spanish

No no, I meant in English. Isn't that what we were talking about?

As 'soon' is an adverb

As 'to be ready' is an adjetive : ¿estás pronta Kitkattail? = are you ready Kitkattail? (the 'a' is for feminine) This is in Uruguay.

As bad-tempered' is an idiom, in Spain.

I love this forum , one can talk about English, Spanish, German and Swahili so far.

But Kit, read the begginnig of my post above, I said 'In Spanish......'

Oh no, but I wasn't really replying to you, but to the other fellow. Since the Guest asked what "a pronto" was, I was wondering if he had actually seen it as a noun.

Ah, I see.
To me the question was similar to that one when somebody asked the meaning of 'serengeti'
It wasn't English but Swahili.
'Un pronto' (a pronto) is so Spanish that I couldn't resist.

I thought, pronto was from Italian - there it is an adjective and means quickly or immediately.