Meaning of Brat | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Acronym of bananas, rice, apple sauce, toast, the basis of a diet formerly recommended for an upset stomach.
   abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, uncountable
2. Bratwurst.
   informal
3. A thin bed of coal mixed with pyrites or carbonate of lime.
4. A human child.
   countable, slang, uncountable
5. Acronym of Bradley reactive armor tile.
   US, abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, uncountable
6. A child who is regarded as mischievous, unruly, spoiled, or selfish.
   countable, derogatory, slang, uncountable
7. The qualities possessed by a confident and assertive woman.
   neologism, slang, uncountable
8. A child (at any age) of an active member of the military or the diplomatic service.
   countable, slang, uncountable
9. A submissive partner who is disobedient and unruly.
   countable, slang, uncountable
10. A turbot or flatfish.
    countable, uncountable
11. A rough cloak or ragged garment.
    countable, historical, uncountable
12. A coarse kind of apron for keeping the clothes clean; a bib.
    Scotland, UK, countable, dialectal, obsolete, uncountable
13. The young of an animal.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“"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 --"”

“a spoiled brat”

“Get that little brat away from me!”

“He would never speak a word, - only eat and cry, and she hadn't the heart to strike it or illtreat the youngster either; but somebody taught her a charm to make him speak, and then she found out what kind of a brat he really was.”

“Here are the people and the styles at the DNC that embodied the brat ethos.”

“Brat is being lazy until 10 P.M., at which point you construct a château using discarded scraps of pleather, finish it by morning, and immediately win the Pritzker Architecture Prize.”

“My favorite touch is how each of her Nike shoes has its own little bow, which is just the perfect amount of brat.”

“an army brat”

“Lt. Gen. John L. DeWitt, Commander of the Fourth Army, was an army “brat,” which means his father was an army officer. But he went into the army from Princeton, not from West Point.”

“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.”

“There are many people loitering, eating ice cream, talking, eating brats.”

“For diarrhea caused by a stomach virus or a meal that didn’t agree with you, try the BRAT diet, says James Lee, MD, gastroenterologist with St. Joseph Hospital in Orange, Calif.”

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