brat

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a badly behaved or spoiled child

   The spoiled brat screamed until his mother bought the toy.

Of uncertain origin, recorded from the 16th century; perhaps from dialectal brat ('a coarse garment, rag'), from Old Irish bratt ('cloak'), or possibly imitative. The development to 'spoiled child' is unclear.

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