brat
- noun
- /bræt/
- Offensive
- Be who you are, don't be a brat, but be who you are.
- a spoiled brat
Be who you are, don't be a brat, but be who you are.
- Be who you are, don't be a brat, but be who you are.
- You say Audrey is a spoiled brat and Matt is a fat ass.
- I cried like a little brat because they were going to a drive in movie.
- No, really, I think it's because they're not brats.
- And if she wins, they're going to be weak, spoiled little brats.
- The son on the other hand, was what I call spoiled brat.
- Like what goes through your mind when even if I'm being really irritating or being a brat, like what makes you just continually do that without.
- Think about the joy and picking on some poor kid in gym class back when you're in middle school and kind of a miserable brat.
- I ain't going to like raise a brat if he cries for saying he don't get it.
- I call her little Rosita, and she's a little girl who's a brat who lives in me.
Examples
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First it's milk and cookies with Rachel and the brat, and now you're hanging out with the husband, too.
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Okay, you little brat, let go of her head.
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Okay, brat, see you later.
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I said let go, you little brat.
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You need to watch your mouth, brat!
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Here I come, you little brat.
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Because frankly, your daughter is a gigantic brat!
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You ungrateful brat.
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You're such a brat.
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That kid is such a brat; he never listens to his parents.
Synonyms
A person who behaves in a silly or not grown-up way
A child who causes trouble and is hard to control
A child who is very naughty and hard to control
A child who behaves badly and causes a lot of trouble
A rude child who annoys other people
A small child who behaves badly, often in a playful way
Antonyms
Compounds
- Informal
A child whose parent is in the army who grows up on military bases and moves often
How Unruly
Surface Forms
Etymology
Brat for a naughty child comes from an old word bratt meaning 'rag' or 'cloak'. It once meant a child in rags, and that's why today brat often means a spoiled or annoying child.