Brat
[bræt]
Definition
(n.) A coarse garment or cloak; also, coarse clothing, in general.
(n.) A coarse kind of apron for keeping the clothes clean; a bib.
(n.) A child; an offspring; -- formerly used in a good sense, but now usually in a contemptuous sense.
(n.) The young of an animal.
(n.) A thin bed of coal mixed with pyrites or carbonate of lime.
Typist: Margery
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [Term of contempt.] Child, urchin, bantling, infant, BAIRN.
Typist: Rowland
Definition
n. a contemptuous name for a child as in 'beggar's brat:' any over-garment of coarse cloth a child's pinafore an apron.—n. Brat′chet a little brat—better Brat′ling.
Edited by Darrell
Examples
- He begged of high and low--of the shoeless cottage brat and the coroneted duke. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Then I'll whop yer when I get in,' said the voice; 'you just see if I don't, that's all, my work'us brat! Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- I would as soon have been charged with a pauper brat out of a workhouse: but he was weak, naturally weak. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- The young brat's been ill and confined to the crib; and--' 'Ah, Nancy, dear! Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- The little brat. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- It would be intolerable to me to pass a whole evening _tete-a-tete_ with a brat. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I'll have no brats! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Such brats--oh, dear me, such brats! Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
Inputed by Cornelia