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Children vs Rugrat - What's the difference?

children | rugrat |

As nouns the difference between children and rugrat

is that children is while rugrat is (humorous|or|pejorative) a toddler, a young child.

children

English

Alternative forms

* (l) (archaic)

Noun

(head)
  • .
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
  • , chapter=7 citation , passage=‘Children crawled over each other like little grey worms in the gutters,’ he said. ‘The only red things about them were their buttocks and they were raw. Their faces looked as if snails had slimed on them and their mothers were like great sick beasts whose byres had never been cleared. […]’}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-14, author=(Jonathan Freedland)
  • , volume=189, issue=1, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Obama's once hip brand is now tainted , passage=Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.}}

    rugrat

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (humorous, or, pejorative) A toddler, a young child.
  • Usage notes

    * This noun is usually found in its plural form: (rugrats).