What is the difference between bib and brat?
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An item of clothing for babies tied around their neck to protect their clothes from getting dirty when eating.
A rectangular piece of material, carrying a bib number, worn as identification by entrants in a race
The upper part of an apron or overalls.
A patch of colour around an animal's upper breast and throat.
* 1950 , Arthur Cleveland Bent, Life Histories of North American Wagtails, Shrikes, Vireos, and their Allies
* 2011 , Arthur Peacock, Gettysburg the Cat (page 22)
An arctic fish (Gadus luscus ), allied to the cod; the pout.
A bibcock.
(archaic) To drink heartily; to tipple.
English palindromes
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A child (as a pejorative term); offspring.
Now often specifically, a selfish or spoiled child.
a (w) or flatfish
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A rough cloak or ragged garment
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(obsolete, UK, Scotland, dialect) A coarse kind of apron for keeping the clothes clean; a bib.
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(obsolete) The young of an animal.
(military) B.R.A.T. - Born, Raised, And Transferred.
As nouns the difference between bib and brat
is that bib is an item of clothing for babies tied around their neck to protect their clothes from getting dirty when eating while brat is a child (as a pejorative term); offspring or brat can be bratwurst or brat can be (mining) a thin bed of coal mixed with pyrites or carbonate of lime.As a verb bib
is (archaic) to drink heartily; to tipple.bib
English
Noun
(en noun)- In summer the whole throat and breast are black, but in winter plumage the throat is white bounded by a horseshoe-shaped black bib .
- He don't look anything like the captain. This here cat has got a nice thick black coat of fur with a nice white bib and white feet.
Derived terms
* best bib and tuckerVerb
(bibb)- He was constantly bibbing . — Locke.
References
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Etymology 1
Origin uncertain. According to theOnline Etymology Dictionary, the term "brat" derives from an Old English (Old English) slang term meaning "beggar's child". Originally a dialectal word, from northern and western England and the Midlands, for a "makeshift or ragged garment"; probably the same word as (etyl) ).
Noun
(en noun)- (Wright)