Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A little brat; an infant.
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- noun A
little brat .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Liz Cheney is shooting her farging mouth yet again defending her daddy while being denied the right to marry the individual she loves and forced to bear her bratling out of wedlock.
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"Liz Cheney is shooting her farging mouth yet again defending her daddy while being denied the right to marry the individual she loves and forced to bear her bratling out of wedlock."
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No, it is his daughter I seek to escape — the ten-year-old step-bratling who plagues every waking moment of my existence.
One Night Of Scandal Medeiros, Teresa, 1962- 2003
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He swore every oath imaginable at her, insolently ordering her to be off with her child, and find lodgings with the villain to whom she had prostituted herself, or else he would soon pitch her and her little bratling into the Thames.
The Black-Sealed Letter Or, The Misfortunes of a Canadian Cockney. Andrew Learmont Spedon 1857
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We are all -- wife, bratling, and self, remarkably well.
Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey Joseph Cottle 1811
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We are all -- wife, bratling, and self, remarkably well.
Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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The hands do not tell time; instead, they point to the location of each broodling, bratling and errant husband.
Geek.com 2009
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Mr Bradley James as the bratling prince (yes, I know Mr T H White says that Arthur is supposed be brought up ignorant of his royal heritage; clearly the committee are just as ignorant of THEIR heritage) managed to make him a right royal pain without being totally unlikeable.
The Very Fluffy Diary of Millennium Dome, Elephant Millennium Dome 2008
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If I were to rule in your favor, would Martha Fisher be the next bratling in a long and everlasting line of infant supermen applying to this and that and the other Court to have their legal majority ruled, each of them pointing to your case as having established precedence? "
The Fourth R George Oliver Smith 1946
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We are all ” wife, bratling, and self, remarkably well.
Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Robert Southey Cottle, Joseph 1847
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