brat
EnglishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
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 (“cloak, cloth”)).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
brat (plural brats)
- (slang) A human child.
- 2012 March 2, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Friday, Mar 2, 2012:
- "So... you want to have kids someday?" "Uh... well, yes. I always figured I'd have a couple brats of my own someday..." "That's still doable, you know." "I know, but the process is a lot more complicated and less intimate, and --"
- (derogatory, slang) A child who is regarded as mischievous, unruly, spoiled, or selfish.
- Get that little brat away from me!
- 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, H.L. Brækstad, transl., Folk and Fairy Tales, page 297:
- He would never speak a word, - only eat and cry, and she hadn't the heart to strike it or illtreat the youngster either; but somebody taught her a charm to make him speak, and then she found out what kind of a brat he really was.
- (slang) A child (at any age) of an active military service member.
- an army brat
- 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...
- (historical) A rough cloak or ragged garment.
- 1386, Geoffrey Chaucer, “Line 881”, in The Canon's Yeoman's Tale[1]:
- 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.
- (obsolete, UK, Scotland, dialect) 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".
- (obsolete) The young of an animal.
- c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], part 1, 2nd edition, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene iii:
- Their ſhoulders broad, for complet armour fit,
Their lims more large and of a bigger ſize
Than all the brats yſprong from Typhons loins:
- 1680, Roger L'Estrange, Citt and Bumpkin
- They are your Will-Worship-men, your Prelates Brats: Take the whole Litter of’um, and you’ll finde never a barrel better Herring.
SynonymsEdit
- See also Thesaurus:child.
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VerbEdit
brat (third-person singular simple present brats, present participle bratting, simple past and past participle bratted)
- (BDSM, intransitive) To act in a bratty manner (as the submissive).
- 1900, Ardie Stallard, Switch: A Tale of Spanking, BDSM & Romance
- Ruthie was Ed's own submissive, a short, pretty, feisty ash-blonde New York City native who combined her submission to Ed with a good deal of mischievous bratting and a lot of sharp, intelligent conversation […]
- 2020, Jessica M. Kratzer, Communication in Kink (page 43)
- Rather, Ana moves between playful bratting and a type of “conquer me” wantedness that good Dominants would respond to with increased control and correction.
- 1900, Ardie Stallard, Switch: A Tale of Spanking, BDSM & Romance
ReferencesEdit
- Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.
Etymology 2Edit
Shortened from bratwurst, from German Bratwurst.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
brat (plural brats)
- (informal) Bratwurst.
- 2020, Brandon Taylor, Real Life, Daunt Books Originals, page 267:
- There are many people loitering, eating ice cream, talking, eating brats.
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Etymology 3Edit
NounEdit
brat (plural brats)
Etymology 4Edit
NounEdit
brat
- (military) Acronym of Born, Raised, And Transferred.
AnagramsEdit
DanishEdit
EtymologyEdit
A merger of two unrelated adjectives:
- Old Norse *brantr (east), brattr (west), from Proto-Germanic *brantaz, cognate with Norwegian bratt, Swedish brant, English brant.
- Old Norse bráðr (“hasty, sudden”), from Proto-Germanic *brēþaz (“hot, in a hurry, rushed”), cognate with Norwegian brå, Swedish bråd. In early modern Danish, the latter meaning also had the form brad, with the neuter bradt.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
brat (plural and definite singular attributive bratte, comparative brattere, superlative (predicative) brattest, superlative (attributive) bratteste)
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DutchEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
brat n (uncountable)
- Alternative form of brat.
GermanEdit
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
brat
IrishEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Old Irish bratt, from Proto-Celtic *brattos (compare Welsh brethyn (“cloth”), from *brattinyos).
NounEdit
brat m (genitive singular brait, nominative plural brait)
- 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.”)
- Proverb:
- covering
- (theater) curtain
- Alternative form of bratach (“flag”)
DeclensionEdit
Derived termsEdit
- aerbhrat (“atmosphere”)
- brat allais (“sweat-cloth; lather of sweat”)
- brat altóra (“vestment, altar-cloth”)
- brat Bhríde (“(piece of cloth representing) St. Brigid’s mantle”)
- brat boird (“table-cloth”)
- brat brád (“neckerchief”)
- brat bróin (“pall”)
- brat cinn (“head-dress, kerchief”)
- brat deataigh (“smoke-screen”)
- brat dín (“protective covering”)
- brat móna (“cut turf spread on bog”)
- brat reatha (“carpet runner”)
- brat sneachta (“mantle of snow”)
- brata (“carpeted, covered (with)”)
- bratchreimeadh (“sheet erosion”)
- brateagraíocht (“umbrella organization”)
- bratfhiaile (“blanketweed”)
- bratlong (“flagship”)
- bratóg (“small cloak, covering; rag; flake”)
- bratsáirsint (“colour-sergeant”)
- bratscair (“layered, spread-out, material; covering”)
- ceannbhrat (“canopy”)
- fo-bhrat (“undercoat”)
Related termsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
NounEdit
brat m (genitive singular brat, nominative plural bratanna)
DeclensionEdit
MutationEdit
Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
brat | bhrat | mbrat |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further readingEdit
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “brat”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “bratt”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Entries containing “brat” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
- Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 49
- Entries containing “brat” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
KashubianEdit
EtymologyEdit
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *bratrъ, *bratъ, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰréh₂tēr.
NounEdit
brat m pers
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Lower SorbianEdit
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
brat
PolishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *bratrъ, *bratъ, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰréh₂tēr.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
brat m pers (diminutive braciszek)
- brother
- 1632, Uwspółcześniona Biblia Gdańska:
- 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.
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RomanianEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic братъ (bratŭ).
NounEdit
brat m (plural brați)
DeclensionEdit
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Scottish GaelicEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Irish bratt, from Proto-Celtic *brattos (compare Welsh brethyn (“cloth”), from *brattinyos).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
brat m (genitive singular brata, plural bratan)
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
MutationEdit
Scottish Gaelic mutation | |
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Radical | Lenition |
brat | bhrat |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Serbo-CroatianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Slavic *bratrъ, *bratъ, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰréh₂tēr.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
brȁt m (Cyrillic spelling бра̏т)
Usage notesEdit
There is no plural form for this noun. Instead, the collective term brȁća is used for plural meanings.
DeclensionEdit
singular | |
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nominative | brat |
genitive | brata |
dative | bratu |
accusative | brata |
vocative | brate |
locative | bratu |
instrumental | bratom |
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SlovakEdit
EtymologyEdit
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *bratrъ, *bratъ, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰréh₂tēr.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
brat m anim (genitive singular brata, nominative plural bratia, genitive plural bratov, declension pattern of chlap)
DeclensionEdit
Further readingEdit
- brat in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk
SloveneEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Slavic *bratrъ, *bratъ, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰréh₂tēr.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
brȁt m anim
InflectionEdit
Masculine anim., hard o-stem | |||
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nom. sing. | brȁt | ||
gen. sing. | bráta | ||
singular | dual | plural | |
nominative (imenovȃlnik) |
brȁt | bráta | brátje bráti |
genitive (rodȋlnik) |
bráta | brátov | brátov |
dative (dajȃlnik) |
brátu | brátoma | brátom |
accusative (tožȋlnik) |
bráta | bráta | bráte |
locative (mẹ̑stnik) |
brátu | brátih | brátih |
instrumental (orọ̑dnik) |
brátom | brátoma | bráti |
Further readingEdit
- “brat”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
SlovincianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Slavic *bratrъ. Cognates with Polish brat.
NounEdit
brãt m
DeclensionEdit
SwedishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from English brat (“spoiled child”).
NounEdit
brat c
- (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
Usage notesEdit
- Mainly used in plural, as a collective noun.
- Can occasionally be seen considered as neuter rather than common.