brat

Noun

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

Verb

To act in a bratty manner as the submissive.

Adj

Characteristic of a confident and assertive woman.

Pronounced as (IPA)

/bɹat/

Etymology

Early Modern English (c. 1500) slang term meaning "beggar's child". Possibly from Scots bratchet (“bitch, hound”). Another possibility is that it was 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”)). In the sense "characteristic of a confident and assertive woman", coined by English singer and songwriter Charli XCX in her 2024 album Brat.

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

Translations

bachor

mocoso

mimado

παλιόπαιδο

yumurcak

κουτσούβελο

pirralho

Blage

velet

👦

gamin

Balg

blaag

🧒

Gör

Lümmel

🧑‍🌾

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