brat

Origin uncertain. According to the Online Etymology Dictionary, the term "brat" derives from an Early Modern English (ca. 1500) slang term meaning "beggar's child". Originally a dialectal word, from northern and western England and the Midlands, for a "makeshift or ragged garment"; probably the same word as Old English bratt (“cloak”), which is from a Celtic source (compare Old Irish bratt (“cloak, cloth”)).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /bɹat/
• (US) enPR: brăt, IPA^(key): /bɹæt/
• Rhymes: -æt

brat (plural brats)

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

   Get that little brat away from me!

2. (slang) A son or daughter (at any age) of an active military service member.

   an army brat

3. a turbot or flatfish
   • 1843, Thomas Wilson, The Movement‎^{[The Pitman's Pay: And Other Poems]}:

     For the crabby awd dealers in ling, cod, and brats / And the vurgins that tempt us wi' nice maiden skyet...

4. (historical) A rough cloak or ragged garment
   • 1386, Geoffrey Chaucer, “Line 881”, in The Canon's Yeoman's Tale‎:

     Whicħ þat þey myght / wrape hem in at nyght / And a brat / to walk in / by day-light

   • 1961, Audrey I. Barfoot, Everyday costume in Britain: from the earliest times to 1900, page 80:

     The chief's daughter wears a brat and léine girdled with a criss.

   • 2005, Seán Duffy, Medieval Ireland: An Encyclopedia, →ISBN, page 156:

     The prevailing style of dress in the early medieval period comprised a léine (tunic) worn under a brat (cloak).

   • 2006, Celtic Culture: A-Celti, →ISBN, page 1272:

     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.

5. (obsolete, Britain, Scotland, dialectal) A coarse kind of apron for keeping the clothes clean; a bib.
   • 1882, John Strathesk, “pp. 135”, in Blinkbonny‎^{[The English Dialect Dictionary... brat]}:

     [She] had still on the rough worsted apron of nappy homespun wool, called a "brat".

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Wright to this entry?)

6. (obsolete) The young of an animal.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of L'Estrange to this entry?)

• See also Thesaurus:child.

Shortened from bratwurst, from German Bratwurst.

• (US) enPR: brŏt, IPA^(key): /bɹɑt/
• Rhymes: -ɒt

brat (plural brats)

1. (informal) bratwurst

• Appendix:English collective nouns

brat (plural brats)

1. (mining) A thin bed of coal mixed with pyrites or carbonate of lime.

brat

1. (military) Acronym of Born, Raised, And Transferred.

• BART, Bart, T-bar

• IPA^(key): /brat/, [b̥ʁɑd̥]

From Old Norse brantr, brattr. Cognate with Faroese and Icelandic brattur, Norwegian bratt, Swedish brant, and Old English brant, bront (English brant, brent, Scots brent).

• brant (dialectal)

brat

1. steep

From Old Norse brattr (“steep”) and merged with Old Norse bráðr (“hasty, sudden”), from Proto-Germanic *brēþaz (“hot, in a hurry, rushed”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrē-, *bʰerē- (“steam, vapour”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (“to seethe, toss about, cook”).

brat

1. sudden

• “brat” in Den Danske Ordbog

• IPA^(key): /bʀaːt/

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• Rhymes: -aːt

brat

1. Imperative singular of braten.
2. (colloquial) First-person singular present of braten.

• (Munster) IPA^(key): [bˠɾˠɑt̪ˠ]
• (Connacht, Ulster) IPA^(key): [bˠɾˠat̪ˠ]

From Old Irish bratt, from Proto-Celtic *bratto- (compare Welsh brethyn (“cloth”), from *bratt-ino-).

brat m (genitive singular brait, nominative plural brait)

1. mantle, cloak

   Proverb:

   Ná leath do bhrat ach mar is féidir leat a chonlú.

   Cut your coat according to your cloth.

   (literally, “Don’t spread your cloak farther than you can fold it.”)

2. covering
3. (theater) curtain
4. Alternative form of bratach (“flag”)

brat m (genitive singular brat, nominative plural bratanna)

1. broth; thick soup

• "brat" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• “bratt” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
• Entries containing “brat” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “brat” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

From Proto-Slavic *bratrъ, *bratъ, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰréh₂tēr.

brat m

1. brother

• IPA^(key): [brat]

brat

1. supine of braś

From Proto-Slavic *bratrъ, *bratъ, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰréh₂tēr.

• IPA^(key): /brat/

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brat m pers (diminutive braciszek)

1. brother
   • Uwspółcześniona Biblia Gdańska, Mark 1:16:

     A przechadzając się nad Morzem Galilejskim, zobaczył Szymona i Andrzeja, jego brata, zarzucających sieć w morze; byli bowiem rybakami.

     As Jesus was strolling beside the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew, his brother, casting a net into the sea; they were fishermen

• bratowa

• brat in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From Old Irish bratt, from Proto-Celtic *bratto- (compare Welsh brethyn (“cloth”), from *bratt-ino-).

brat m (genitive singular brata, plural bratan)

1. cloak, cover, covering, mantle, veil, canopy
2. mat

• brat-cùil

From Proto-Slavic *bratrъ, *bratъ, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰréh₂tēr.

• IPA^(key): /brât/

brȁt m (Cyrillic spelling бра̏т)

1. brother
2. mate, pal, buddy, when used in informal speech to address somebody in vocative (brate)

There is no plural form for this noun. Instead, the collective term brȁća is used for plural meanings.

From Proto-Slavic *bratrъ, *bratъ, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰréh₂tēr.

• IPA^(key): /brat/

brat m (genitive singular brata, nominative plural bratia, genitive plural bratov, declension pattern of chlap)

1. brother

• brat in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

From Proto-Slavic *bratrъ, *bratъ, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰréh₂tēr.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbrát/
• Tonal orthography: brȁt

bràt m anim (genitive bráta, nominative plural brátje or bráti)

1. brother

Borrowed from English brat (“spoiled child”).

brat c

1. (slang) person who is very careful about following fashion trends; someone who rarely ever acts independently but rather follows peer pressure, usually maintaining an appearance of visible wealth

• Mainly used in plural, as a collective noun.
• Can occasionally be seen considered as neuter rather than common.

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