brat

• POS: Noun

CIDE DICTIONARY

brat, n. [OE. bratt coarse garnment, AS. bratt cloak, fr. the Celtic; cf. W. brat clout, rag, Gael. brat cloak, apron, rag, Ir. brat cloak; properly then, a child's bib or clout; hence, a child.].

•  A coarse garment or cloak; also, coarse clothing, in general.  Chaucer.  [1913 Webster]
•  A coarse kind of apron for keeping the clothes clean; a bib.  Wright.  [1913 Webster]
•  A child; an offspring; -- formerly used in a good sense, but now usually in a contemptuous sense.  Swift.  [1913 Webster]

  "O Israel! O household of the Lord!
  O Abraham's brats! O brood of blessed seed!"  [1913 Webster]
•  The young of an animal.  L'Estrange.  [1913 Webster]

brat, n. 

 A thin bed of coal mixed with pyrites or carbonate of lime.  [1913 Webster]

ROGET THESAURUS

brat

Infant

N infant, babe, baby, babe in arms, nurseling, suckling, yearling, weanling, papoose, bambino, kid, vagitus, child, bairn, little one, brat, chit, pickaninny, urchin, bantling, bratling, elf, youth, boy, lad, stripling, youngster, youngun, younker, callant, whipster, whippersnapper, whiffet, schoolboy, hobbledehoy, hopeful, cadet, minor, master, scion, sap, seedling, tendril, olive branch, nestling, chicken, larva, chrysalis, tadpole, whelp, cub, pullet, fry, callow, codlin, codling, foetus, calf, colt, pup, foal, kitten, lamb, lambkin, aurelia, caterpillar, cocoon, nymph, nympha, orphan, pupa, staddle, girl, lass, lassie, wench, miss, damsel, demoiselle, maid, maiden, virgin, hoyden, infantine, infantile, puerile, boyish, girlish, childish, babyish, kittenish, baby, newborn, unfledged, new-fledged, callow, in the cradle, in swaddling clothes, in long clothes, in arms, in leading strings, at the breast, in one's teens.