Definition of "brat"

"So... you want to have kids someday?" "Uh... well, yes. I always figured I'd have a couple brats of my own someday..." "That's still doable, you know." "I know, but the process is a lot more complicated and less intimate, and --"

2012 March 2, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Friday, Mar 2, 2012

For the crabby awd dealers in ling, cod, and brats / And the vurgins that tempt us wi' nice maiden skyet...

1843, Thomas Wilson, The Movement‎[The Pitman's Pay: And Other Poems]

Whicħ þat þey myght / wrape hem in at nyght / And a brat / to walk in / by day-light

1386, Geoffrey Chaucer, “Line 881”, in The Canon's Yeoman's Tale‎

The chief's daughter wears a brat and léine girdled with a criss.

1961, Audrey I. Barfoot, Everyday costume in Britain: from the earliest times to 1900, page 80

The prevailing style of dress in the early medieval period comprised a léine (tunic) worn under a brat (cloak).

2005, Seán Duffy, Medieval Ireland: An Encyclopedia, page 156

Women wore loose, flowing, ankle-length robes modelled on 11th-century European fashion (derived from what O'Neill called the léine) and, perhaps, a brat over these.

2006, Celtic Culture: A-Celti, page 1272

[She] had still on the rough worsted apron of nappy homespun wool, called a "brat".

1882, John Strathesk, “pp. 135”, in Blinkbonny‎[The English Dialect Dictionary... brat]

Their ſhoulders broad, for complet armour fit,Their lims more large and of a bigger ſizeThan all the brats yſprong from Typhons loins:

c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, Act III, scene iii

They are your Will-Worship-men, your Prelates Brats: Take the whole Litter of’um, and you’ll finde never a barrel better Herring.

1680, Roger L'Estrange, Citt and Bumpkin

Ruthie was Ed's own submissive, a short, pretty, feisty ash-blonde New York City native who combined her submission to Ed with a good deal of mischievous bratting and a lot of sharp, intelligent conversation […]

2021, Ardie Stallard, Switch: A Tale of Spanking, BDSM & Romance

Rather, Ana moves between playful bratting and a type of “conquer me” wantedness that good Dominants would respond to with increased control and correction.

2020, Jessica M. Kratzer, Communication in Kink, page 43

There are many people loitering, eating ice cream, talking, eating brats.

2020, Brandon Taylor, Real Life, Daunt Books Originals, page 267