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Smokie vs Brat - What's the difference?

smokie | brat |

As nouns the difference between smokie and brat

is that smokie is (canada) a type of sausage, often used for hot dogs while brat is brother.

smokie

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (Canada) A type of sausage, often used for hot dogs.
  • (UK, informal) a smoked fish
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    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
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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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  • (Wright)
  • (obsolete) The young of an animal.
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    Etymology 2

    Shortened from bratwurst, from the (etyl) Bratwurst

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • bratwurst
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    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.
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