Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗A human child. · A child who is regarded as mischievous, unruly, spoiled, or selfish. · The qualities possessed by a confident and assertive woman. · A child (at any age) of an active member of the military or the diplomatic service.
Characteristic of a confident and assertive woman.
To act in a bratty manner as the submissive.
Early Modern English (c. 1500) slang term meaning "beggar's child". Possibly from Scots bratchet (“bitch, hound”), in which case it would be a doublet of brachet. Another possibility is that it was originally a dialectal word, from northern and western England and the Midlands, for a "makeshift or ragged garment," from Old English bratt (“cloak”), which is from a Celtic source (Old Irish brat (“cloak, cloth”)). In the sense "characteristic of a confident and assertive woman", coined by English singer and songwriter Charli XCX in her 2024 album Brat, though occasional earlier uses of the word with a "reclaimed" or ironic, positive connotation existed, including in LGBTQ slang for people of certain femme or feminine-leaning personalities.
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