brat

Meaning

Noun

1. (slang) A human child.
2. (slang) A human child.
3. (slang) A human child.
4. (slang) A human child.
5. (slang) A human child.
6. A turbot or flatfish.
7. A rough cloak or ragged garment.
8. (obsolete) A coarse kind of apron for keeping the clothes clean; a bib.
9. (obsolete) The young of an animal.

Verb

To act in a bratty manner (as the submissive).

Adj

Fierce and authentic.

Synonyms

bastard

bratwurst

bad person

kid

🧒

wicked person

little terror

terror

punk

naughty boy

holy terror

rascal

scalawag

scapegrace

spring chicken

urchin

youth

sprog

tike

child

🧒

illegitimate child

cloak

boy

👦

kids

pickle

ragamuffin

Pronounced as (IPA)

/bɹat/

Etymology

Early Modern English (ca. 1500) slang term meaning "beggar's child". Possibly from Scots bratchet (“bitch, hound”). Or, possibly originally a dialectal word, from northern and western England and the Midlands, for a "makeshift or ragged garment," from Old English bratt (“cloak”), which is from a Celtic source (Old Irish brat (“cloak, cloth”)).