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BRAT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does brat mean?
• BRAT (noun)
The noun BRAT has 2 senses:
1. a very troublesome child
2. a small pork sausage
Familiarity information: BRAT used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A very troublesome child
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
brat; holy terror; little terror; terror
Hypernyms ("brat" is a kind of...):
imp; monkey; rapscallion; rascal; scalawag; scallywag; scamp (one who is playfully mischievous)
Derivation:
bratty ((used of an ill-mannered child) impolitely unruly)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A small pork sausage
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Synonyms:
brat; bratwurst
Hypernyms ("brat" is a kind of...):
pork sausage (sausage containing pork)
Context examples
It would be intolerable to me to pass a whole evening tete-a-tete with a brat.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
I would as soon have been charged with a pauper brat out of a workhouse: but he was weak, naturally weak.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
I'll have no brats!
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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