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Brat   /bræt/   Listen
noun
Brat  n.  
1.
A coarse garment or cloak; also, coarse clothing, in general. (Obs.)
2.
A coarse kind of apron for keeping the clothes clean; a bib. (Prov. Eng. & Scot.)
3.
A child; an offspring; formerly used in a good sense, but now usually in a contemptuous sense. "This brat is none of mine." "A beggar's brat." "O Israel! O household of the Lord! O Abraham's brats! O brood of blessed seed!"
4.
The young of an animal. (Obs.)


Brat  n.  (Mining) A thin bed of coal mixed with pyrites or carbonate of lime.





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"Brat" Quotes from Famous Books



... an error. And as a father ought not to contemn his son, if he has any defect, in the same manner we ought not [to contemn] our friend. The father calls his squinting boy a pretty leering rogue; and if any man has a little despicable brat, such as the abortive Sisyphus formerly was, he calls it a sweet moppet; this [child] with distorted legs, [the father] in a fondling voice calls one of the Vari; and another, who is club-footed, he calls a Scaurus. [Thus, does] this friend of yours live more sparingly than ordinarily? ...
— The Works of Horace • Horace
... won't hurt the brat if he behaves himself and doesn't get bumptious. Likely enough he'll be fast asleep. Boys at his age ...
— The Young Explorer • Horatio Alger
... it into the world under the conduct of that prince, when he died it was left a hopeless brat, and had hardly any hand to own it, till the wreck-voyage before noted, performed so happily by Captain Phips, afterwards Sir William, whose strange performance set a great many heads on work to contrive ...
— An Essay Upon Projects • Daniel Defoe
... of a brat!"—so he has chucked "Little Sis" has he, the rich piker? Well, Bill can see about that! Of course he thinks ...
— Writing the Photoplay • J. Berg Esenwein and Arthur Leeds
... am warm, he cools me with beating: I am waked with it when I sleep; raised with it when I sit; driven out of doors with it when I go from home; welcomed home with it when I return: nay, I bear it on my shoulders, as 35 a beggar wont her brat; and, I think, when he hath lamed me, I shall beg with it from ...
— The Comedy of Errors - The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] • William Shakespeare


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