Meaning

12 senses
  1. (countable, slang, uncountable)A human child.

  2. A human child.

    (countable, derogatory, slang, uncountable)A child who is regarded as mischievous, unruly, spoiled, or selfish.

    a spoiled brat

    Get that little brat away from me!

    Balg, Göre, Gör

    ребёнок, него́дникnegódnik, него́дницаnegódnica

  3. (neologism, slang, uncountable)The qualities possessed by a confident and assertive woman.

  4. (countable, slang, uncountable)A child (at any age) of an active member of the military or the diplomatic service.

    an army brat

  5. (countable, slang, uncountable)A submissive partner who is disobedient and unruly.

  6. (broadly, countable, derogatory, uncountable)An immature, spoiled and/or selfish person.

  7. (countable, uncountable)A turbot or flatfish.

  8. (countable, historical, uncountable)A rough cloak or ragged garment.

  9. (countable, informal, uncountable)Bratwurst.

  10. A thin bed of coal mixed with pyrites or carbonate of lime.

  11. (Scotland, UK, countable, dialectal, obsolete, uncountable)A coarse kind of apron for keeping the clothes clean; a bib.

  12. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)The young of an animal.

Examples

66 sentences
  1. You're behaving like a spoiled brat.

    Ти поводишся, як зіпсований шибеник. — deniko

  2. You're behaving like a spoilt brat.

    Ти поводишся, як зіпсований шибеник. — deniko

  3. Tom's kid is a spoiled brat.

    ruУ Тома ребёнок — испорченный ублюдок. — Smoky

  4. Tom and Mary are spoiled brats.

  5. Tom's children are all spoiled brats.

Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
a selfish, spoiled, or unruly child:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
a selfish, spoiled, or unruly child:

Origin

Early Modern English (c. 1500) slang term meaning "beggar's child". Possibly from Scots br

Early Modern English (c. 1500) slang term meaning "beggar's child". Possibly from Scots bratchet (“bitch, hound”), in which case it would be a doublet of brachet. 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”)).

Clipping of bratwurst, from German Bratwurst.

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