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Brat vs Drat - What's the difference?

brat | drat |

As nouns the difference between brat and drat

is that brat is brother while drat is wire (thin thread of metal).

brat

English

Etymology 1

Origin uncertain. According to the Online 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)
  • A child (as a pejorative term); offspring.
  • Now often specifically, a selfish or spoiled child.
  • a (w) or flatfish
  • *
  • A rough cloak or ragged garment
  • * '>citation
  • (obsolete, UK, Scotland, dialect) A coarse kind of apron for keeping the clothes clean; a bib.
  • *
    • (Wright)
  • (obsolete) The young of an animal.
    • (rfquotek, L'Estrange)
    Synonyms
    * See also .

    Etymology 2

    Shortened from bratwurst, from the (etyl) Bratwurst

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • bratwurst

    • See also

    * English clippings

    Etymology 3

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (mining) A thin bed of coal mixed with pyrites or carbonate of lime.

    • Etymology 4

    Acronym

  • (military) B.R.A.T. - Born, Raised, And Transferred.

    • Anagrams

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    drat

    English

    Verb

    (dratt)
  • To damn or curse.
    • That dratted cat's been in the vegetable patch again.
  • * 1882 , The Japan Daily Mail (page 1129)
    • Whereat Mr. Fussy Fumer, gravely displeased, hastens home and writes an anonymous letter to Mrs. Gamp, who joins him in dratting the 'imperent upstart,' and denouncing the incompetence of the police.
  • * 1999 , Guy Murchie, ''The Seven Mysteries of Life: An Exploration in Science & Philosophy - Page 14
    • And should you be one of those conventional persons who thinks of parasites as abnormal or perhaps goes so far as to drat the varmints, you may be surprised to discover, as I did, that parasites live both inside and outside most organisms in all the kingdoms, which makes parasitism thoroughly normal

    Interjection

  • A cry of anger or frustration

    • Synonyms

    * crap! * damn! * goddammit!

    Anagrams

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