bratn.¹

Brit.

/brat/, U.S.

/bræt/

Forms: Also Old English bratt, 1500s bratte.

Etymology: Of Celtic origin. Old English (Northumbrian) bratt was probably adopted < Old Irish brat(t (masculine), ‘cloth’, especially as a covering for the body, ‘plaid, mantle, cloak’ (compare Gaelic brat ‘haircloth for a kiln, apron; covering, mantle, veil’, Old Welsh *breth (or *brath), plural brith, bryth, applied to the swaddling-clothes of an infant: the modern Welsh brat ‘pinafore, rag’, is merely the English word.

Obsolete exc. dialect.

1. A cloth used as an over-garment, esp. of a coarse or makeshift character.

†a. In Old English: a cloak.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > loose clothing > cloak, mantle, or cape

rifteOE

mantleeOE

whittlec900

hackleeOE

bratc950

reafOE

capec1275

copec1275

cloakc1300

toge?a1400

caster1567

togeman1567

vinegar1699

overcloak1831

pharos1871

c950 Lindisf. Gosp. Matt. v. 40 Ðæm seðe wil..cyrtel ðin to niomanne forlet eac hrægl vel hæcla vel bratt [L. pallium, Ags. wæfels, Rushw. hryft].

c1386 G. Chaucer Canon's Yeoman's Prol. & Tale 329 A brat [v.r. bak] to walken in by day-light.

b. midlands, western, and northern dialect. A child's pinafore; a woman's or girl's pinafore or apron. (See also quot. 1962.)

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > that covers or protects other clothing > apron, pinafore, or overall

brat1570

pinner1674

tidya1825

tire1846

1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Civ/1 A Bratte, panniculus.

1763 ‘T. Bobbin’ Toy-shop (new ed.) 44 Th' Treacle-butter-keke stickt to Seroh's Brat.

1885 E. Lynn Linton Christopher Kirkland i. i. 15 The women held their aprons (‘brats’ we called them).

1959 Times 15 Oct. 14/6 The picking basket or pail was rejected in favour of the ‘brat’, a long apron made from a meal sack into which the potatoes were first picked.

1962 J. B. Priestley Margin Released i. iii. 24 I..had put on the chequered overall known locally as a ‘brat’.

c. contemptuously. A rag, or article which is ‘a mere rag’.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [noun] > ragged or tattered > article of

tatter-wagc1400

brat1529

tatter-wallop1808

1529 T. More Supplyc. Soulys ii. f. xlii^v There ys none so pore as we, y^t haue not a bratte to put on our bakkys.

1691 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Words (ed. 2) 8 Bratt, a course Apron, a Rag.

1786 R. Burns Poems 36 Sowps o' kail and brats o' claise.

2. A jacket for a sheep's back.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > [noun] > jacket for sheep's back

brat1862

1862 J. Wilson Farming 487 This ‘Brat’..prevents the wool from parting over the spine.

†3. Rubbish, beggarly stuff. Cf. beggary n. 5. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > refuse or rubbish > [noun]

wrakea1350

outcastingc1350

rammel1370

rubble1376

mullockc1390

refusec1390

filtha1398

outcasta1398

chaff?a1400

rubbishc1400

wastec1430

drossc1440

raff?1440

rascal1440

murgeonc1450

wrack1472

gear1489

garblec1503

scowl1538

raffle1543

baggage1549

garbage1549

peltry1550

gubbins?1553

lastage1553

scruff1559

retraict1575

ross1577

riddings1584

ket1586

scouring1588

pelf1589

offal1598

rummage1598

dog's meat1606

retriment1615

spitling1620

recrement1622

mundungus1637

sordes1640

muskings1649

rejectament1654

offscouring1655

brat1656

relicts1687

offage1727

litter1730

rejectamenta1795

outwale1825

detritus1834

junk1836

wastements1843

croke1847–78

sculch1847

debris1851

rumble1854

flotsam1861

jetsam1861

pelt1880

offcasting1893

rubbishry1894

littering1897

muckings1898

wastage1898

dreck1905

bruck1929

crap1934

garbo1953

clobber1965

dooky1965

grot1971

tippings-

1656 tr. J. A. Comenius Latinæ Linguæ Janua Reserata: Gate Lat. Tongue Unlocked xxxiii. §336 The Threshers..with a whisk of feathers purge it from the refuse,..and with a siev from the brat or beggery.

4. (Scottish) The tough film or skin which forms on porridge, rice pudding, and the like.

ΚΠ

1795 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. XV. 8 (note) (Jam.) Brat, a cover or scurf.

1864 J. Brown Jeems 11 Saying his grace over our bickers [of porridge] with their brats on.

Derivatives

ˈbratful n. apronful.

ΚΠ

1867 E. Waugh Owd Blanket i. 19 in J. H. Nodal & G. Milnar Gloss. Lancashire Dial. (1875) A brat-full o' guinea gowd.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

bratn.²

Brit.

/brat/, U.S.

/bræt/

Forms: Also 1500s–1600s bratt(e.

Etymology: Of uncertain origin: Wedgwood, E. Müller, and Skeat think it the same word as the brat n.¹, but evidence of the transition of sense has not been found.

a. ‘A child, so called in contempt’ (Johnson). In 16th and 17th centuries sometimes used without contempt, though nearly always implying insignificance; the phrase beggar's brat has been common from the first.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > person > child > [noun]

wenchelc890

childeOE

littleOE

littlingOE

hired-childc1275

smalla1300

brolla1325

innocentc1325

chickc1330

congeonc1330

impc1380

faunt1382

young onec1384

scionc1390

weea1400

birdc1405

chickenc1440

enfaunta1475

small boyc1475

whelp1483

burden1490

little one1509

brat?a1513

younkerkin1528

kitling1541

urchin1556

loneling1579

breed1586

budling1587

pledge?1587

ragazzo1591

simplicity1592

bantling1593

tadpole1594

two-year-old1594

bratcheta1600

lambkin1600

younker1601

dandling1611

buda1616

eyas-musketa1616

dovelinga1618

whelplinga1618

puppet1623

butter printa1625

chit1625

piggy1625

ninnyc1626

youngster1633

fairya1635

lap-child1655

chitterling1675

squeaker1676

cherub1680

kid1690

wean1692

kinchin1699

getlingc1700

totum17..

charity-child1723

small girl1734

poult1739

elfin1748

piggy-wiggy1766

piccaninny1774

suck-thumb18..

teeny1802

olive1803

sprout1813

stumpie1820

sexennarian1821

totty1822

toddle1825

toddles1828

poppet1830

brancher1833

toad1836

toddler1837

ankle-biter1840

yarkera1842

twopenny1844

weeny1844

tottykins1849

toddlekins1852

brattock1858

nipper1859

sprat1860

ninepins1862

angelet1868

tenas man1870

tad1877

tacker1885

chavvy1886

joey1887

toddleskin1890

thumb-sucker1891

littlie1893

peewee1894

tyke1894

che-ild1896

kiddo1896

mother's bairn1896

childling1903

kipper1905

pick1905

small1907

God forbid1909

preadolescent1909

subadolescent1914

toto1914

snookums1919

tweenie1919

problem child1920

squirt1924

trottie1924

tiddler1927

subteen1929

perisher1935

poopsie1937

pre-schooler1937

pre-teen1938

pre-teener1940

juvie1941

sprog1944

pikkie1945

subteenager1947

pre-teenager1948

pint-size1954

saucepan lid1960

rug rat1964

smallie1984

bosom-child-

a1513 W. Dunbar Flyting in Poems (1998) I. 201 Iersche brybour baird, wyle beggar with thy brattis.

1557 Earl of Surrey et al. Songes & Sonettes sig. O.i Yong brats, a trouble: none at all, a maym it seems to bee.

a1577 Gascoigne in E. Farr Sel. Poetry Reign Elizabeth (1845) I. 35 O Abrahams brats, O broode of blessed seede.

1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis i. 7 What syn hath Æneas, my brat, committed agaynst the?

a1593 H. Smith Wks. (1866–7) I. 197 Where any sectary hath one son, Machiavel hath a score, and those not the brats, but the fatlings of the land.

1650 Cromwell in Carlyle Lett. & Sp. (1871) III. 9 I should be glad to hear how the little brat doth.

1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 479. ⁋1 The noise of those damned nurses and squalling brats.

1750 S. Johnson Rambler No. 15 As cheap as any two little brats can be kept.

1808 W. Scott Mem. in J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Scott (1842) i. 8/1 I felt the change from being a single indulged brat, to becoming a member of a large family, very severely.

1879 W. H. Dixon Royal Windsor II. vi. 65 Repulsed in her appeal for mercy like a beggar's brat.

b. figurative. Offspring, product.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > creation > [noun] > production > product

blossomc1230

fodmea1325

burgeona1340

progenya1393

geniture?1440

fruitc1450

productionc1450

offspring1573

product1573

nursling1591

bantling1593

excrement1600

procedue1602

issuea1616

procedure1626

creature1651

produce1657

parturition1659

outbirth1663

sequel1669

brat1678

operation1774

outgoing1850

fruitling1876

1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. v. 891 An Ignoble and Bastardly Brat of Fear.

1720 Ormond in Swift's Lett. (1766) II. 9 The South-sea was said to be my lord Oxford's brat.

1790 J. Wolcot Benevolent Epist. to Sylvanus Urban in Wks. (1812) II. 257 Ambitious that the Brats my Rhymes Should see the Gentlefolks of future times.

Draft additions 1993

3. Compounds.

brat pack n. [punningly after rat pack n.¹] slang (originally U.S.) a group of young Hollywood film stars of the mid 1980s popularly regarded as enjoying a rowdy, fun-loving lifestyle; hence, any precocious and aggressive clique; frequently attributive.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > attractiveness > [noun] > glamour > glamorous person > specific group

brat pack1985

1985 D. Blum in New York 10 June 42/1 This is the Hollywood ‘Brat Pack’. It is to the 1980s what the Rat Pack was to the 1960s—a roving band of famous young stars on the prowl for parties, women, and a good time.

1986 City Limits 9 Oct. 29 Andie..is torn between desire for rich kid Blane..and contempt for his brat pack lifestyle.

1988 Literary Rev. Aug. 26/1 In the hands of a Brett Easton Ellis, McInerney's pace-maker within America's literary brat pack, a description of the situation would have sufficed.

1989 Face Jan. 3 Now 20, Molly Ringwald is finally shaking off the Brat Pack tag.

brat packer n. a member of a brat pack.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > attractiveness > [noun] > glamour > glamorous person > specific group > member of

brat packer1985

1985 D. Blum in New York 10 June 42/1 The Brat Packers act together whenever possible.

1986 Sunday Sun (Brisbane) 22 June 22/5 Brat packer Judd Nelson is too big for his boots. He recently refused to be photographed.

1989 Q Mar. 119/4 Young guns. A new generation rediscovers an old genre: brat-packers Estevez, Sutherland, Sheen and Lou Diamond ‘La Bamba’ Phillips in a rollicking re-run of the Billy The Kid legend.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

bratn.³

Brit.

/brat/, U.S.

/bræt/

Forms: Also bratt.

Etymology: A variant of bret n.

A fish: the turbot, birt, or bret. Also attributive, as in brat-net.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Pleuronectiformes (flat-fish) > [noun] > family Scophthalmidae (turbot) > genus or member of Scophthalmus > scophthalmus maximus (turbot)

buttc1300

turbotc1300

sprent1324

breta1475

birt1552

sea pheasant1633

rhomb1720

brat1760

rodden fluke1793

king-fluke1895

1760 Ann. Reg. 1759 Chron. 68/2 It..had a head like a turbot or Bratt.

1883 Great Internat. Fisheries Exhib. Catal. 12 Brat or Turbot Net complete.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

bratn.⁴

Brit.

/brat/, U.S.

/bræt/

Etymology: perhaps akin to brat n.¹ 2.

Mining.

Categories »

‘A thin bed of coal mixed with pyrites or carbonate of lime.’ Bainbridge Law of Mines 1856.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

bratn.⁵

Brit.

/brɑːt/, U.S.

/brɑt/

Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: bratwurst n.

Etymology: Shortened < bratwurst n.

U.S. regional (Midwest).

A bratwurst sausage.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > sausage > [noun] > types of sausage

franchemyle1381

herbelade?c1390

haggisc1400

black puddinga1450

blood puddingc1450

bloodinga1500

liveringa1500

haggis pudding1545

white pudding1578

swine's pudding1579

hog's pudding1583

Bolognian sausage1596

bloodling1598

andouille1605

andouillet1611

cervelat1613

mortadella1613

polony1654

blacking1674

hacking1674

whiting1674

Oxford sausagec1700

saucisson1772

German sausage1773

saveloy1784

blood sausage1799

white hawse1819

liver sausage1820

black pot1825

chipolata1830

Bologna sausage1833

butifarra1836

mettwurst1836

Cambridge sausage1840

boudin1845

chorizo1846

German1847

liverwurst1852

salami1852

station-Jack1853

leberwurst1855

wurst1855

blutwurst1856

bag of mystery1864

Vienna sausage1865

summer sausage1874

wienerwurst1875

mealy pudding1880

whitepot1880

wiener1880

erbswurst1885

pepperoni1888

mystery bag1889

red-hot1890

weenie1891

hot dog1892

frankfurter1894

sav?1894

Coney Island1895

coney1902

garlic sausage1905

boloney1907

kishke1907

drisheen1910

bratwurst1911

banger1919

cocktail sausage1927

boerewors1930

soy sausage1933

thuringer1933

frank1936

fish sausage1937

knackwurst1939

foot-long1941

starver1941

soya sausage1943

soysage1943

soya link1944

brat1949

Vienna1952

kielbasa1953

Coney dog1954

tube steak1963

Weisswurst1963

Cumberland sausage1966

merguez1966

tripe sausage1966

schinkenwurst1967

boerie1981

'nduja1996

1949 Sheboygan (Wisconsin) Press 8 Sept. 33 (advt.) Fry Johnsonville brats and hamburgers.

1979 Cincinnati Mag. June 13/2 There will be metts, brats, and other such sausages to eat at the festival.

2007 Indianapolis Star 13 Aug. b5/2 The shop will still cure meats and produce the most authentic brats and wursts in town.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2013; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

bratv.

Brit.

/brat/, U.S.

/bræt/

Etymology: < brat n.¹

rare.

transitive. To wrap up in a brat or clout.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > wrapping > wrap [verb (transitive)] > in or as in specific material

brat1570

ensindon1609

paper1683

repaper1785

turban1822

flax1860

burlap1908

plastic wrap1946

wire-wrap1957

shrink-wrap1969

1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Civ/2 To Bratte, panniculis circumdare.

1862 J. Wilson Farming 487 Where the bratting plan has been adopted, the usual rate of mortality has been reduced.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

n.¹c950

n.²?a1513

n.³1760

n.⁴

n.⁵1949

v.1570

单词	brat
释义	bratn.¹ Brit. /brat/, U.S. /bræt/ Forms: Also Old English bratt, 1500s bratte. Etymology: Of Celtic origin. Old English (Northumbrian) bratt was probably adopted < Old Irish brat(t (masculine), ‘cloth’, especially as a covering for the body, ‘plaid, mantle, cloak’ (compare Gaelic brat ‘haircloth for a kiln, apron; covering, mantle, veil’, Old Welsh breth (or brath), plural brith, bryth, applied to the swaddling-clothes of an infant: the modern Welsh brat ‘pinafore, rag’, is merely the English word. Obsolete exc. dialect. 1. A cloth used as an over-garment, esp. of a coarse or makeshift character. †a. In Old English: a cloak. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > loose clothing > cloak, mantle, or cape rifteOE mantleeOE whittlec900 hackleeOE bratc950 reafOE capec1275 copec1275 cloakc1300 toge?a1400 caster1567 togeman1567 vinegar1699 overcloak1831 pharos1871 c950 Lindisf. Gosp. Matt. v. 40 Ðæm seðe wil..cyrtel ðin to niomanne forlet eac hrægl vel hæcla vel bratt [L. pallium, Ags. wæfels, Rushw. hryft]. c1386 G. Chaucer Canon's Yeoman's Prol. & Tale 329 A brat [v.r. bak] to walken in by day-light. b. midlands, western, and northern dialect. A child's pinafore; a woman's or girl's pinafore or apron. (See also quot. 1962.) ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > that covers or protects other clothing > apron, pinafore, or overall brat1570 pinner1674 tidya1825 tire1846 1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Civ/1 A Bratte, panniculus. 1763 ‘T. Bobbin’ Toy-shop (new ed.) 44 Th' Treacle-butter-keke stickt to Seroh's Brat. 1885 E. Lynn Linton Christopher Kirkland i. i. 15 The women held their aprons (‘brats’ we called them). 1959 Times 15 Oct. 14/6 The picking basket or pail was rejected in favour of the ‘brat’, a long apron made from a meal sack into which the potatoes were first picked. 1962 J. B. Priestley Margin Released i. iii. 24 I..had put on the chequered overall known locally as a ‘brat’. c. contemptuously. A rag, or article which is ‘a mere rag’. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [noun] > ragged or tattered > article of tatter-wagc1400 brat1529 tatter-wallop1808 1529 T. More Supplyc. Soulys ii. f. xlii^v There ys none so pore as we, y^t haue not a bratte to put on our bakkys. 1691 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Words (ed. 2) 8 Bratt, a course Apron, a Rag. 1786 R. Burns Poems 36 Sowps o' kail and brats o' claise. 2. A jacket for a sheep's back. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > [noun] > jacket for sheep's back brat1862 1862 J. Wilson Farming 487 This ‘Brat’..prevents the wool from parting over the spine. †3. Rubbish, beggarly stuff. Cf. beggary n. 5. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > refuse or rubbish > [noun] wrakea1350 outcastingc1350 rammel1370 rubble1376 mullockc1390 refusec1390 filtha1398 outcasta1398 chaff?a1400 rubbishc1400 wastec1430 drossc1440 raff?1440 rascal1440 murgeonc1450 wrack1472 gear1489 garblec1503 scowl1538 raffle1543 baggage1549 garbage1549 peltry1550 gubbins?1553 lastage1553 scruff1559 retraict1575 ross1577 riddings1584 ket1586 scouring1588 pelf1589 offal1598 rummage1598 dog's meat1606 retriment1615 spitling1620 recrement1622 mundungus1637 sordes1640 muskings1649 rejectament1654 offscouring1655 brat1656 relicts1687 offage1727 litter1730 rejectamenta1795 outwale1825 detritus1834 junk1836 wastements1843 croke1847–78 sculch1847 debris1851 rumble1854 flotsam1861 jetsam1861 pelt1880 offcasting1893 rubbishry1894 littering1897 muckings1898 wastage1898 dreck1905 bruck1929 crap1934 garbo1953 clobber1965 dooky1965 grot1971 tippings- 1656 tr. J. A. Comenius Latinæ Linguæ Janua Reserata: Gate Lat. Tongue Unlocked xxxiii. §336 The Threshers..with a whisk of feathers purge it from the refuse,..and with a siev from the brat or beggery. 4. (Scottish) The tough film or skin which forms on porridge, rice pudding, and the like. ΚΠ 1795 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. XV. 8 (note) (Jam.) Brat, a cover or scurf. 1864 J. Brown Jeems 11 Saying his grace over our bickers [of porridge] with their brats on. Derivatives ˈbratful n. apronful. ΚΠ 1867 E. Waugh Owd Blanket i. 19 in J. H. Nodal & G. Milnar Gloss. Lancashire Dial. (1875) A brat-full o' guinea gowd. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online March 2022). bratn.² Brit. /brat/, U.S. /bræt/ Forms: Also 1500s–1600s bratt(e. Etymology: Of uncertain origin: Wedgwood, E. Müller, and Skeat think it the same word as the brat n.¹, but evidence of the transition of sense has not been found. a. ‘A child, so called in contempt’ (Johnson). In 16th and 17th centuries sometimes used without contempt, though nearly always implying insignificance; the phrase beggar's brat has been common from the first. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > child > [noun] wenchelc890 childeOE littleOE littlingOE hired-childc1275 smalla1300 brolla1325 innocentc1325 chickc1330 congeonc1330 impc1380 faunt1382 young onec1384 scionc1390 weea1400 birdc1405 chickenc1440 enfaunta1475 small boyc1475 whelp1483 burden1490 little one1509 brat?a1513 younkerkin1528 kitling1541 urchin1556 loneling1579 breed1586 budling1587 pledge?1587 ragazzo1591 simplicity1592 bantling1593 tadpole1594 two-year-old1594 bratcheta1600 lambkin1600 younker1601 dandling1611 buda1616 eyas-musketa1616 dovelinga1618 whelplinga1618 puppet1623 butter printa1625 chit1625 piggy1625 ninnyc1626 youngster1633 fairya1635 lap-child1655 chitterling1675 squeaker1676 cherub1680 kid1690 wean1692 kinchin1699 getlingc1700 totum17.. charity-child1723 small girl1734 poult1739 elfin1748 piggy-wiggy1766 piccaninny1774 suck-thumb18.. teeny1802 olive1803 sprout1813 stumpie1820 sexennarian1821 totty1822 toddle1825 toddles1828 poppet1830 brancher1833 toad1836 toddler1837 ankle-biter1840 yarkera1842 twopenny1844 weeny1844 tottykins1849 toddlekins1852 brattock1858 nipper1859 sprat1860 ninepins1862 angelet1868 tenas man1870 tad1877 tacker1885 chavvy1886 joey1887 toddleskin1890 thumb-sucker1891 littlie1893 peewee1894 tyke1894 che-ild1896 kiddo1896 mother's bairn1896 childling1903 kipper1905 pick1905 small1907 God forbid1909 preadolescent1909 subadolescent1914 toto1914 snookums1919 tweenie1919 problem child1920 squirt1924 trottie1924 tiddler1927 subteen1929 perisher1935 poopsie1937 pre-schooler1937 pre-teen1938 pre-teener1940 juvie1941 sprog1944 pikkie1945 subteenager1947 pre-teenager1948 pint-size1954 saucepan lid1960 rug rat1964 smallie1984 bosom-child- a1513 W. Dunbar Flyting in Poems (1998) I. 201 Iersche brybour baird, wyle beggar with thy brattis. 1557 Earl of Surrey et al. Songes & Sonettes sig. O.i Yong brats, a trouble: none at all, a maym it seems to bee. a1577 Gascoigne in E. Farr Sel. Poetry Reign Elizabeth (1845) I. 35 O Abrahams brats, O broode of blessed seede. 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis i. 7 What syn hath Æneas, my brat, committed agaynst the? a1593 H. Smith Wks. (1866–7) I. 197 Where any sectary hath one son, Machiavel hath a score, and those not the brats, but the fatlings of the land. 1650 Cromwell in Carlyle Lett. & Sp. (1871) III. 9 I should be glad to hear how the little brat doth. 1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 479. ⁋1 The noise of those damned nurses and squalling brats. 1750 S. Johnson Rambler No. 15 As cheap as any two little brats can be kept. 1808 W. Scott Mem. in J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Scott (1842) i. 8/1 I felt the change from being a single indulged brat, to becoming a member of a large family, very severely. 1879 W. H. Dixon Royal Windsor II. vi. 65 Repulsed in her appeal for mercy like a beggar's brat. b. figurative. Offspring, product. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > [noun] > production > product blossomc1230 fodmea1325 burgeona1340 progenya1393 geniture?1440 fruitc1450 productionc1450 offspring1573 product1573 nursling1591 bantling1593 excrement1600 procedue1602 issuea1616 procedure1626 creature1651 produce1657 parturition1659 outbirth1663 sequel1669 brat1678 operation1774 outgoing1850 fruitling1876 1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. v. 891 An Ignoble and Bastardly Brat of Fear. 1720 Ormond in Swift's Lett. (1766) II. 9 The South-sea was said to be my lord Oxford's brat. 1790 J. Wolcot Benevolent Epist. to Sylvanus Urban in Wks. (1812) II. 257 Ambitious that the Brats my Rhymes Should see the Gentlefolks of future times. Draft additions 1993 3. Compounds. brat pack n. [punningly after rat pack n.¹] slang (originally U.S.) a group of young Hollywood film stars of the mid 1980s popularly regarded as enjoying a rowdy, fun-loving lifestyle; hence, any precocious and aggressive clique; frequently attributive. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > attractiveness > [noun] > glamour > glamorous person > specific group brat pack1985 1985 D. Blum in New York 10 June 42/1 This is the Hollywood ‘Brat Pack’. It is to the 1980s what the Rat Pack was to the 1960s—a roving band of famous young stars on the prowl for parties, women, and a good time. 1986 City Limits 9 Oct. 29 Andie..is torn between desire for rich kid Blane..and contempt for his brat pack lifestyle. 1988 Literary Rev. Aug. 26/1 In the hands of a Brett Easton Ellis, McInerney's pace-maker within America's literary brat pack, a description of the situation would have sufficed. 1989 Face Jan. 3 Now 20, Molly Ringwald is finally shaking off the Brat Pack tag. brat packer n. a member of a brat pack. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > attractiveness > [noun] > glamour > glamorous person > specific group > member of brat packer1985 1985 D. Blum in New York 10 June 42/1 The Brat Packers act together whenever possible. 1986 Sunday Sun (Brisbane) 22 June 22/5 Brat packer Judd Nelson is too big for his boots. He recently refused to be photographed. 1989 Q Mar. 119/4 Young guns. A new generation rediscovers an old genre: brat-packers Estevez, Sutherland, Sheen and Lou Diamond ‘La Bamba’ Phillips in a rollicking re-run of the Billy The Kid legend. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021). bratn.³ Brit. /brat/, U.S. /bræt/ Forms: Also bratt. Etymology: A variant of bret n. A fish: the turbot, birt, or bret. Also attributive, as in brat-net. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Pleuronectiformes (flat-fish) > [noun] > family Scophthalmidae (turbot) > genus or member of Scophthalmus > scophthalmus maximus (turbot) buttc1300 turbotc1300 sprent1324 breta1475 birt1552 sea pheasant1633 rhomb1720 brat1760 rodden fluke1793 king-fluke1895 1760 Ann. Reg. 1759 Chron. 68/2 It..had a head like a turbot or Bratt. 1883 Great Internat. Fisheries Exhib. Catal. 12 Brat or Turbot Net complete. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021). bratn.⁴ Brit. /brat/, U.S. /bræt/ Etymology: perhaps akin to brat n.¹ 2. Mining. Categories » ‘A thin bed of coal mixed with pyrites or carbonate of lime.’ Bainbridge Law of Mines 1856. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021). bratn.⁵ Brit. /brɑːt/, U.S. /brɑt/ Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: bratwurst n. Etymology: Shortened < bratwurst n. U.S. regional (Midwest). A bratwurst sausage. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > sausage > [noun] > types of sausage franchemyle1381 herbelade?c1390 haggisc1400 black puddinga1450 blood puddingc1450 bloodinga1500 liveringa1500 haggis pudding1545 white pudding1578 swine's pudding1579 hog's pudding1583 Bolognian sausage1596 bloodling1598 andouille1605 andouillet1611 cervelat1613 mortadella1613 polony1654 blacking1674 hacking1674 whiting1674 Oxford sausagec1700 saucisson1772 German sausage1773 saveloy1784 blood sausage1799 white hawse1819 liver sausage1820 black pot1825 chipolata1830 Bologna sausage1833 butifarra1836 mettwurst1836 Cambridge sausage1840 boudin1845 chorizo1846 German1847 liverwurst1852 salami1852 station-Jack1853 leberwurst1855 wurst1855 blutwurst1856 bag of mystery1864 Vienna sausage1865 summer sausage1874 wienerwurst1875 mealy pudding1880 whitepot1880 wiener1880 erbswurst1885 pepperoni1888 mystery bag1889 red-hot1890 weenie1891 hot dog1892 frankfurter1894 sav?1894 Coney Island1895 coney1902 garlic sausage1905 boloney1907 kishke1907 drisheen1910 bratwurst1911 banger1919 cocktail sausage1927 boerewors1930 soy sausage1933 thuringer1933 frank1936 fish sausage1937 knackwurst1939 foot-long1941 starver1941 soya sausage1943 soysage1943 soya link1944 brat1949 Vienna1952 kielbasa1953 Coney dog1954 tube steak1963 Weisswurst1963 Cumberland sausage1966 merguez1966 tripe sausage1966 schinkenwurst1967 boerie1981 'nduja1996 1949 Sheboygan (Wisconsin) Press 8 Sept. 33 (advt.) Fry Johnsonville brats and hamburgers. 1979 Cincinnati Mag. June 13/2 There will be metts, brats, and other such sausages to eat at the festival. 2007 Indianapolis Star 13 Aug. b5/2 The shop will still cure meats and produce the most authentic brats and wursts in town. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2013; most recently modified version published online December 2021). bratv. Brit. /brat/, U.S. /bræt/ Etymology: < brat n.¹ rare. transitive. To wrap up in a brat or clout. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > wrapping > wrap [verb (transitive)] > in or as in specific material brat1570 ensindon1609 paper1683 repaper1785 turban1822 flax1860 burlap1908 plastic wrap1946 wire-wrap1957 shrink-wrap1969 1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Civ/2 To Bratte, panniculis circumdare. 1862 J. Wilson Farming 487 Where the bratting plan has been adopted, the usual rate of mortality has been reduced. 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