释义 |
bratty, a. colloq. (orig. U.S.).|ˈbrætɪ| [f. brat n.2: see -y1.] Of a child or adolescent: spoiled, badly-behaved; of an adult: immature, given to behaving like a spoiled child.
1961in Webster. 1973M. Amis Rachel Papers 15 Chinless elitist and bratty whey-faced lordling that I most unquestionably was, my move to London had nothing to do with any antipathy towards themselves, nor towards the village. 1977M. French Women's Room (1978) ii. 115, I..took care of your bratty kids all day. 1980J. Wenner in S. Terkel Amer. Dreams 397, I was always considered bright or spoiled or precocious or bratty. 1985Maledicta VIII. 235 John McEnroe, the bratty tennis champ pictured as cute on his BIC razor commercials, ‘is as cute as a razor nick’. |