brat

head

brat (plural and definite singular attributive bratte, comparative brattere, superlative (predicative) brattest, superlative (attributive) bratteste)

bratte (attributive definite singular)
bratte (attributive plural)
brattere (comparative)
brattest (predicative superlative)
bratteste (attributive superlative)

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.


brat

a spoiled brat

Get that little brat away from me!

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.

1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 297:

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

Here are the people and the styles at the DNC that embodied the brat ethos.

2024 August 23, Lauren Bulbin, Annaliese Nurnberg, “The best brat styles of DNC”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-08-23:

Brat is being lazy until 10 P.M., at which point you construct a château using discarded scraps of pleather, finish it by morning, and immediately win the Pritzker Architecture Prize.

2024 August 26, Lena Dunham, “A Guide to Brat Summer”, in The New Yorker, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-08-27:

My favorite touch is how each of her Nike shoes has its own little bow, which is just the perfect amount of brat.

2024 August 27, Brooke LaMantia, “Naomi Osaka Is Having a Brat U.S. Open”, in The Cut, archived from the original on 2024-08-28:

(uncountable, neologism) The qualities possessed by a confident and assertive woman.

an army brat

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 June 5, Gerry Dick, “They Practiced Art of War, Then They Studied It”, in Hope Star, Hope, Arkansas, page 5:

(slang) A child (at any age) of an active member of the military or the diplomatic service.

(BDSM) A submissive partner who is disobedient and unruly.

"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 --"

2012 March 2, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Friday, Mar 2, 2012:

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

1843, Thomas Wilson, The Movement^([The Pitman's Pay: And Other Poems]):

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

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

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

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

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.

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

(historical) A rough cloak or ragged garment.

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

1882, John Strathesk, “pp. 135”, in Blinkbonny^([The English Dialect Dictionary... brat]):

(obsolete, UK, Scotland, dialect) A coarse kind of apron for keeping the clothes clean; a bib.

Their ſhoulders broad, for complet armour fit,
Their lims more large and of a bigger ſize
Than all the brats yſprong from Typhons loins:

c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, 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:

They are your Will-Worship-men, your Prelates Brats: Take the whole Litter of’um, and you’ll finde never a barrel better Herring.

1680, Roger L'Estrange, Citt and Bumpkin:

en-noun

brat (countable and uncountable, plural brats)

ребёнок

невоспитанный/надоедливый

Early Modern English (c. 1500) slang term meaning "beggar's child". Possibly from Scots bratchet (“bitch, hound”). Another possibility is that it was 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”)). In the sense "characteristic of a confident and assertive woman", coined by English singer and songwriter Charli XCX in her 2024 album Brat.


brat

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 […]

2021, Ardie Stallard, Switch: A Tale of Spanking, BDSM & Romance:

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, Jessica M. Kratzer, Communication in Kink, page 43:

(BDSM, intransitive) To act in a bratty manner as the submissive.

en-verb

brat (third-person singular simple present brats, present participle bratting, simple past and past participle bratted)

brats (present singular third-person)
bratting (participle present)
bratted (participle past)
bratted (past)


brat

kamala IS brat

2024 July 21, @charli_xcx [Charli XCX], Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-07-24:

Starmer's Tory predecessors Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss were identified as brat by 15 percent each of those asked.

2024 August 13, Noah Keate, “It's official: Boris Johnson is brat”, in Politico, archived from the original on 2024-08-15:

Kamala Harris herself was anointed as "brat" the moment that Joe Biden stepped down, but already Harris's mother – who had Indian heritage and raised Harris as a single parent – has been declared the uberbrat, more brat than even her daughter.

2024 August 26, Nesrine Malik, “'Brat' Kamala or 'dragon mother' Pelosi? This meme machine is a risky strategy in a high-stakes election”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-08-27:

(neologism) Characteristic of a confident and assertive woman.

en-adj

brat (comparative more brat, superlative most brat)

more brat (comparative)
most brat (superlative)


brat

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

2020, Brandon Taylor, Real Life, Daunt Books Originals, page 267:

(informal, Upper Midwestern US) Bratwurst.

Clipping of bratwurst, from German Bratwurst.


brat

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


brat

(colloquial) first-person singular present of braten


brat

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.”

head

brat m (genitive singular brait, nominative plural brait)

brait (genitive singular)
brait (nominative plural)
nominative (indefinite)
brat (indefinite singular)
brait (indefinite plural)
vocative (indefinite)
a bhrait (indefinite singular)
a bhrata (indefinite plural)
genitive (indefinite)
brait (indefinite singular)
brat (indefinite plural)
dative (indefinite)
nominative (definite)
an brat (definite singular)
na brait (definite plural)
genitive (definite)
an bhrait (definite singular)
na mbrat (definite plural)
dative (definite)
leis an mbrat (definite singular)
don bhrat (definite singular)
leis na brait (definite plural)

brat Bhríde

(piece of cloth representing) St. Brigid’s mantle

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


brat

brat m (genitive singular brat, nominative plural bratanna)

brat (genitive singular)
bratanna (nominative plural)
nominative (indefinite)
brat (indefinite singular)
bratanna (indefinite plural)
vocative (indefinite)
a bhrat (indefinite singular)
a bhratanna (indefinite plural)
genitive (indefinite)
dative (indefinite)
nominative (definite)
an brat (definite singular)
na bratanna (definite plural)
genitive (definite)
an bhrat (definite singular)
na mbratanna (definite plural)
dative (definite)
leis an mbrat (definite singular)
don bhrat (definite singular)
leis na bratanna (definite plural)
brat
bhrat
mbrat


brat

brother (son of the same parents as another person)

brat (nominative singular)
bratowie (nominative plural)
bracë (nominative plural)
bracô (nominative plural)
brata (genitive singular)
bratów (genitive plural)
bracy (genitive plural)
bratu (dative singular)
bratowi (dative singular)
bratóm (dative plural)
bracóm (dative plural)
brata (accusative singular)
bratów (accusative plural)
bracy (accusative plural)
bratã (instrumental singular)
bratama (instrumental plural)
brace (locative singular)
bratach (locative plural)
brace (singular vocative)
bratowie (plural vocative)
bracë (plural vocative)
bracô (plural vocative)


brat

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

1386, Geoffrey Chaucer, “Line 881”, in The Canon's Yeoman's Tale:


brat

Jan y Jęndrzey, braczą rodzeny

1885-2024 [c. 1428], Jan Baudouina de Courtenay, Jan Karłowicz, Antoni Adam Kryńskiego, Malinowski Lucjan, editors, Prace Filologiczne, volume I, Międzyrzecz, Warsaw, page 479:

Iaco blisznego, iaco brata naszego, taco lub iesm bil (quasi proximum, et quasi fratrem nostrum, sic complacebam)

1939 [end of the 14th century], Ryszard Ganszyniec, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Kubica, Ludwik Bernacki, editors, Psałterz florjański łacińsko-polsko-niemiecki [Sankt Florian Psalter], Krakow: Zakład Narodowy imienia Ossolińskich, z zasiłkiem Sejmu Śląskiego [The Ossoliński National Institute: with the benefit of the Silesian Parliament], pages 34, 17:

Bo on... gescz oczecz nasz i brat nasz

1922 [End of the 14th century], Jan Łoś, editor, Początki piśmiennictwa polskiego. (Przegląd zabytków językowych), page 233:

(attested in Greater Poland, Masovia, Lesser Poland) brother (son of the same parents as another person)

attested in Greater Poland; Lesser Poland; attested in Greater Poland; Lesser Poland

Pamyøtay, yze Tanita (pro Tamara) od swego brata czystotø szgubila

1873, Zygmunt Gloger, editor, Ułamek starożytnego kazania o małżeństwie:

Brath przyrodny novercarius

1885-2024 [1489], Jan Baudouina de Courtenay, Jan Karłowicz, Antoni Adam Kryńskiego, Malinowski Lucjan, editors, Prace Filologiczne, volume V, page 30:

brother (sibling of further connection, i.e. a half-brother)

Szeczslaw yest nasz brath, naszego sczitha y zawolana

1910-2024 [1389], Rocznik Towarzystwa Heraldycznego we Lwowie, volume III, page 3:

U kogokoly swe bogy naydzesz, bødze przede wszemy brati nassymy zagubyon (necetur coram fratribus nostris)

1930 [c. 1455], “Gen”, in Ludwik Bernacki, editor, Biblia królowej Zofii (Biblia szaroszpatacka), 31, 32:

Bracza naschy lawnyczy post nos ad scampnum locati

1928 [c. 1475], “Kmieć wielkopolski w zapiskach sądowych średniowiecznych”, in Kazimierz Tymieniecki, Zygmunt Lisowski, editors, Sprawozdania Poznańskiego Towarzystwa Przyjaciół Nauk, volume IV, Greater Poland, page 44:

Vidce, braca mila, zbauene, vidce uelike sina bozego priiazny

c. 1301-1350, Kazania świętokrzyskie, Miechów, page cr 11:

(attested in Lesser Poland) brother term of address

Nye zabyyay bratha thwego (non occides Deut 5, 17)

c. 1478, Dekalog - Dziesięcioro przykazań bożych - Decem praecepta Dei, volume I, number 2:

zlw-opl-noun

brat m pers (diminutive bratek or bratrzyk, related adjective bratni or bratów or bracki)

bratek (diminutive)
bratrzyk (diminutive)
bratni (adjective)
bratów (adjective)
bracki (adjective)

Polish: brat

Silesian: brat

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *bràtrъ. First attested in the 14th century.


brat

brother (member of the same community, especially a church)

Slovak: brat

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *bràtrъ. First attested in 1454.


brat

Coordinate term: siostra

(family) brother (son of the same parents as another person)

Coordinate term: siostra

przyrodni brat

(family) brother (male having at least one parent in common with another)

(religion) brother (member of a men's religious order)

brother (member of a fraternity, tribe, or brotherhood)

brother (male companion or friend, usually with the same interests, experience, views, etc.)

brother endearing term of address for a male

Frater […] eyn bruder Brat

1528, J. Murmelius, Dictionarius, page 166:

Frater. Bruder. Brat.

Dulciſſime frater, Namilſzi Brácie.

Frater […] Brát.

Habeo te fratrem, Mam cie zá brátá.

Optime et dulciſſime frater, Naylepſzy á naymilſzy brácie.

Frater ‒ Brat.

1588, A. Calepinus, Dictionarium decem linguarum, page 433b:

(Middle Polish) brother; Further details are uncertain.

pl-noun

brat m pers (diminutive braciszek, abbreviation br. or b.)

braciszek (diminutive)
br. (abbreviation)
b. (abbreviation)
brat (nominative singular)
bracia (nominative plural)
brata (genitive singular)
braci (genitive plural)
bratu (dative singular)
braciom (dative plural)
brata (accusative singular)
braci (accusative plural)
bratem (instrumental singular)
braćmi (instrumental plural)
bracie (locative singular)
braciach (locative plural)
bracie (singular vocative)
bracia (plural vocative)

kochajmy się jak bracia, liczmy się jak Żydzi


brat

brați (plural)
brat (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
bratul (accusative definite nominative singular)
brați (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
brații (accusative definite nominative plural)
brat (indefinite singular)
bratului (definite singular)
brați (indefinite singular)
braților (definite plural)
bratule (singular vocative)
braților (vocative)

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic братъ (bratŭ). Doublet of bărat.


brat

cloak, cover, covering, mantle, veil, canopy

head

brat m (genitive singular brata, plural bratan)

brata (genitive singular)
bratan (plural)
brat
bhrat


brat

brother, mate, pal, buddy when used in informal speech to address somebody in the vocative

sh-noun

brȁt m (Cyrillic spelling бра̏т, diminutive brȁtić, relational adjective bràtskī)

brȁt (canonical masculine)
бра̏т (Cyrillic)
brȁtić (diminutive)
bràtskī (adjective relational)
brat (nominative singular)
brata (genitive singular)
bratu (dative singular)
brata (accusative singular)
brate (singular vocative)
bratu (locative singular)
bratom (instrumental singular)

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


brat

Coordinate term: siostra

bracik (diminutive)
brat (nominative singular)
braciŏ (nominative plural)
brata (genitive singular)
bratōw (genitive plural)
bratowi (dative singular)
bratōm (dative plural)
brata (accusative singular)
bratōw (accusative plural)
bratym (instrumental singular)
bratami (instrumental plural)
bratōma (instrumental plural)
bracie (locative singular)
bratach (locative plural)
bracie (singular vocative)
braciŏ (plural vocative)


brat

sk-noun

brat m pers (relational adjective bratský, diminutive braček)

bratský (adjective relational)
braček (diminutive)
nominative
brat (singular)
bratia (plural)
genitive
brata (singular)
bratov (plural)
dative
bratovi (singular)
bratom (plural)
accusative
vocative
brate (singular)
bratu (singular)
locative
bratoch (plural)
instrumental
bratom (singular)
bratmi (plural)


brat

(literary, archaic) brother (someone of the same or closely related nationality)

(literary, by extension) brother (someone sharing the same opinions)

brȁt (animate canonical masculine)
brȁt (nominative singular)
bráta (dual nominative)
brátje (nominative plural)
bráti (nominative plural)
bráta (genitive singular)
brātov (dual genitive)
brātov (genitive plural)
brátu (dative singular)
bráti (dative singular)
brātu (dative singular)
brátoma (dative dual)
brátama (dative dual)
brátom (dative plural)
brátam (dative plural)
bráta (accusative singular)
bráta (accusative dual)
bráte (accusative plural)
brātu (locative singular)
bráti (locative singular)
brātih (dual locative)
brātah (dual locative)
brātih (locative plural)
brātah (locative plural)
brátom (instrumental singular)
brátoma (dual instrumental)
brátama (dual instrumental)
brāti (instrumental plural)
brȁt (singular vocative)
brate (singular vocative)
brȃta (dual vocative)
brȃti (plural vocative)

vowel lengthening, ending -je in nominative plural


brat

brat (nominative singular)
brata (dual nominative)
bracë (nominative plural)
bratë (nominative plural)
braco (nominative plural)
brata (genitive singular)
brató (genitive plural)
bratú (dative singular)
bratôma (dative dual)
bratma (dative dual)
bratóm (dative plural)
brata (accusative singular)
brata (accusative dual)
brató (accusative plural)
brata (instrumental singular)
bratôma (dual instrumental)
bratma (dual instrumental)
braty (instrumental plural)
bratmy (instrumental plural)
bratamy (instrumental plural)
bracê (locative singular)
bracéch (locative plural)
bratach (locative plural)
bracê (singular vocative)
brata (dual vocative)
bracë (plural vocative)
bratë (plural vocative)
braco (plural vocative)


brat

(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

Borrowed from English brat (“spoiled child”).


brat

cy-noun

brat f (plural bratiau or bratau, diminutive bretyn)

bratiau (plural)
bratau (plural)
bretyn (diminutive)
brat
frat (soft)
mrat

Middle English bratt (“cloak”) or from Middle Irish bratt.