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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A child, especially a spoiled or ill-mannered one.
  2. n. A child of a career military person.
  3. n. Bratwurst.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A coarse mantle or cloak.
  2. n. A child's bib or apron.
  3. n. A clout; a rag.
  4. n. The film on the surface of some liquids, as on boiled milk when cold.
  5. n. A child: now used only in contempt: as, “this brat is none of mine,”
  6. n. “their dirty brats,”
  7. n. A local English name of the turbot.

Wiktionary

  1. n. bratwurst
  2. n. mining A thin bed of coal mixed with pyrites or carbonate of lime.
  3. n. A child (as a pejorative term); offspring.
  4. n. Now often specifically, a selfish or spoiled child.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. obsolete A coarse garment or cloak; also, coarse clothing, in general.
  2. n. Prov. Eng. & Scot. A coarse kind of apron for keeping the clothes clean; a bib.
  3. n. A child; an offspring; -- formerly used in a good sense, but now usually in a contemptuous sense.
  4. n. obsolete The young of an animal.
  5. n. (Mining) A thin bed of coal mixed with pyrites or carbonate of lime.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a small pork sausage
  2. n. a very troublesome child

Etymologies

  1. Shortened from bratwurst, from the German Bratwurst (Wiktionary)
  2. Possibly from brat, coarse garment, from Middle English, from Old English bratt, of Celtic origin. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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synonyms (4)

Words with the same meaning

  1. bib
  1. child
  1. offspring
  1. chill

hypernyms (8)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. pork sausage
  1. scalawag
  1. scallywag
  1. imp
  1. rascal
  1. scamp
  1. rapscallion
  1. monkey

same context (24)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. bitch
  2. wench
  3. wretch
  4. rascal
  1. brute
  2. slut
  3. sonofabitch
  4. youngster
  1. beggar
  2. whore
  3. bugger
  4. hag
  1. urchin
  2. ruffian
  3. kid
  4. vermin
  1. hussy
  2. lout
  3. scamp
  4. vagabond
  1. prick
  2. swine
  3. upstart
  4. coward

rhymes (54)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. At
  2. Batt
  3. Bhatt
  4. Cat
  5. Catt
  6. Gnat
  7. Gujarat
  8. Kat
  9. Landsat
  10. Mat
  1. Matt
  2. Nat
  3. Pat
  4. Platte
  5. Pratt
  6. Sadat
  7. Sat
  8. at
  9. at-bat
  10. bat
  1. batt
  2. begat
  3. cat
  4. chat
  5. combat
  6. dat
  7. fat
  8. flat
  9. gat
  10. glatt
  1. gnat
  2. hat
  3. kat
  4. lat
  5. mat
  6. matt
  7. matte
  8. nat
  9. nonfat
  10. pat
  1. platt
  2. pratt
  3. rat
  4. rat-a-tat
  5. sat
  6. scat
  7. slat
  8. spat
  9. splat
  10. stat
  1. tat
  2. that
  3. tit-for-tat
  4. vat

reverse dictionary (5)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. bratling
  1. brat
  1. brat pack
  1. hedge-bantling
  1. bratty

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  • hernesheir Cf. definitions of bratchet. One wonders if that word figures in the uncertain etymology of brat. Jan 4, 2012

  • tbtabby Means "brother" in Russian. Jul 13, 2009

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