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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. A child (as a pejorative term); offspring.
  2. n. Now often specifically, a selfish or spoiled child.
  3. n. bratwurst

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A coarse garment or cloak; also, coarse clothing, in general.
  2. n. 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. The young of an animal.
  5. n. 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. Possibly from brat, coarse garment, from Middle English, from Old English bratt, of Celtic origin.

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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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