Brat vs Urchin - What's the difference?
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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.
A mischievous child.
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A street kid, a child from a poor neighborhood.
* W. Howitt
(archaic) A hedgehog.
* before 1400 ,
A sea urchin.
A mischievous elf supposed sometimes to take the form a hedgehog.
* Shakespeare
One of a pair in a series of small card cylinders arranged around a carding drum; so called from its fancied resemblance to the hedgehog.
As nouns the difference between brat and urchin
is that brat is brother while urchin is a mischievous child.brat
English
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)
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* See also .Etymology 2
Shortened from bratwurst, from the (etyl) BratwurstSee also
* English clippingsEtymology 3
Etymology 4
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* ----urchin
English
Noun
(en noun)- And like these fresh green things were the dozens of babies, tots, toddlers, noisy urchins , laughing girls, a whole multitude of children of one family. For Collier Brandt, the father of all this numerous progeny, was a Mormon with four wives.
- And the urchins that stand with their thievish eyes / Forever on watch ran off each with a prize.
- We'll dress [them] like urchins , ouphes, and fairies.
- (Knight)