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- 1. a bratwurst sausage: informal US "burgers, fries, ribs, brats, potato salad, pies—you name it this spread had it"
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1. a. disparaging : child. specifically : an ill-mannered annoying child. a spoiled brat. b. : an ill-mannered immature person. 2. : the child of a career military person. army brats. also : the child of a person whose career is in a specified and typically unusual field. Hollywood brats. brattiness. ˈbra-tē-nəs. noun. brattish. ˈbra-tish.
Brat can mean a child who behaves badly or one you do not like, or a type of sausage made from pork. Learn more about the word, its usage and related terms with Cambridge Dictionary.
Brat definition: a child, especially an annoying, spoiled, or impolite child (usually used in contempt or irritation).. See examples of BRAT used in a sentence.
2 days ago · countable noun. If you call someone, especially a child, a brat, you mean that he or she behaves badly or annoys you. [informal, disapproval] He's a spoilt brat. Synonyms: youngster, kid [informal], urchin, imp More Synonyms of brat. Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers.
a type of sausage made from pork (= meat from a pig), spices, and herbs. Brat is short for bratwurst : People lined up at the food vendors for a brat with kraut. First, put 5 brats in a pan, then add 2 cans of beer. More examples. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases.
Brat can mean a spoiled or ill-mannered child, a child of a career military person, or a type of sausage. Find out the origin, usage, and translations of brat in different languages.
Brat was and still is not always used in contempt, but at the time, the word usually implied insignificance or poverty, as in beggar’s brat. Brat probably comes from a Celtic language: in Irish, bratt means “a cloak, a cloth (especially as a covering for one’s body)”; in Welsh, brethyn means “cloth.”
