Brat

/bɹæt/ · noun

Meaning

(slang, usually negative connotation) A human child..

Definitions by Sense

1. (slang, usually negative connotation) A human child.
2. A turbot or flatfish.
3. (historical) A rough cloak or ragged garment.
4. (obsolete, UK, Scotland, dialect) A coarse kind of apron for keeping the clothes clean; a bib.
5. (obsolete) The young of an animal.
6. (BDSM, intransitive) To act in a bratty manner as the submissive.
7. (neologism) Characteristic of a confident and assertive woman.
8. (informal, chiefly Upper Midwestern US) Bratwurst.

Example Sentences

"So... you want to have kids someday?" "Uh... well, yes. I always figured I'd have a couple brats of my own someday..." "That's still doable, you know." "I know, but the process is a lot more complicated and less intimate, and --"

For the crabby awd dealers in ling, cod, and brats / And the vurgins that tempt us wi' nice maiden skyet...

The chief's daughter wears a brat and léine girdled with a criss.

The prevailing style of dress in the early medieval period comprised a léine (tunic) worn under a brat (cloak).

Women wore loose, flowing, ankle-length robes modelled on 11th-century European fashion (derived from what O'Neill called the léine) and, perhaps, a brat over these.

[She] had still on the rough worsted apron of nappy homespun wool, called a "brat".

Their ſhoulders broad, for complet armour fit, Their lims more large and of a bigger ſize Than all the brats yſprong from Typhons loins:

They are your Will-Worship-men, your Prelates Brats: Take the whole Litter of’um, and you’ll finde never a barrel better Herring.

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• brats
• bratting
• bratted
• more brat
• most brat

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