brat
noun/bræt/
/bræt/
(informal, disapproving)- a person, especially a child, who behaves badly
- a spoiled/spoilt brat
- Why does that irritating little brat ask so many stupid questions?
Oxford Collocations DictionaryBrat is used before these nouns:- pack
Word Originmid 16th cent.: perhaps an abbreviation of synonymous Scots bratchet, from Old French brachet ‘hound, bitch’; or perhaps from dialect brat ‘rough garment, rag’, based on Old Irish bratt ‘cloak’.
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