brat

noun11

1. •
   (slang, disapproving) a rude and selfish child who wants everything their own way

   • Get that little brat away from me!
2. •
   (disapproving) An immature, spoiled and/or selfish person.
3. •
   (slang) A human child.
4. •
   (slang) A child (at any age) of an active member of the military or the diplomatic service.

   • Lt. Gen. John L. DeWitt, Commander of the Fourth Army, was an army “brat,” which means his father was an army officer. But he went into the army from Princeton, not from West Point. — 1941
5. •
   (slang) The qualities possessed by a confident and assertive woman.

   • Here are the people and the styles at the DNC that embodied the brat ethos. — 2024
6. •
   (slang) A submissive partner who is disobedient and unruly.
7. •
   A turbot or flatfish.

   • For the crabby awd dealers in ling, cod, and brats / And the vurgins that tempt us wi' nice maiden skyet... — 1843
8. •
   (historical) A rough cloak or ragged garment.

   • The chief's daughter wears a brat and léine girdled with a criss. — 1961
9. •
   A thin bed of coal mixed with pyrites or carbonate of lime.
10. •
    (no longer used) The young of an animal.

    • Their shoulders broad, for complet armour fit, Their lims more large and of a bigger size Than all the brats ysprong from Typhons loins: — 1587
11. •
    (dialect, no longer used) A coarse kind of apron for keeping the clothes clean; a bib.

    • [She] had still on the rough worsted apron of nappy homespun wool, called a "brat". — 1882

adjective1

1. •
   Characteristic of a confident and assertive woman.

   • kamala IS brat — 2024

verb1

1. •
   (slang) To act in a bratty manner as the submissive.

   • Rather, Ana moves between playful bratting and a type of “conquer me” wantedness that good Dominants would respond to with increased control and correction. — 2020

noun1

1. •
   (informal) Bratwurst.

   • There are many people loitering, eating ice cream, talking, eating brats. — 2020

noun2

1. •
   Acronym of bananas, rice, apple sauce, toast, the basis of a diet formerly recommended for an upset stomach.

   • For diarrhea caused by a stomach virus or a meal that didn’t agree with you, try the BRAT diet, says James Lee, MD, gastroenterologist with St. Joseph Hospital in Orange, Calif. — 2015
2. •
   (US) Acronym of Bradley reactive armor tile.