brat

Meaning

Noun

• A child who is regarded as mischievous, unruly, spoiled, or selfish.
• A son or daughter (at any age) of an active military service member.
• a turbot or flatfish
• A rough cloak or ragged garment
• A coarse kind of apron for keeping the clothes clean; a bib.
• The young of an animal.
• bratwurst
• A thin bed of coal mixed with pyrites or carbonate of lime.
• Acronym of [[born

Origin

• Early Modern English (ca. 1500) slang term meaning "beggar's child". Possibly from Scots bratchet ("bitch, hound"). Or, possibly 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).
• Shortened from bratwurst, from German Bratwurst.