Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A shelf.
- noun A seat with a high back.
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- adjective Characteristic of a
brat ; childishlyrude andannoying .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (used of an ill-mannered child) impolitely unruly
Etymologies
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Examples
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When Lleyton Hewitt burst on to the scene as a snarling, brattish teenager with his baseball cap on back to front, Wimbledon did not know quite what to make of him.
Hewitt Rolls Back the Years But Cannot Stop Söderling Ben Smith 2011
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The first episode told the story – of, as even a fule will know through cultural osmosis, the fallout from a family barbecue that ends with a brattish three-year-old, whose parents refuse to discipline him, being slapped by someone else – from the host Hector's point of view.
TV review: The Slap; The Future State of Welfare; Panorama – Dale Farm: the Big Eviction 2011
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He tells Young that he regrets his "spoilt and brattish" behaviour when he won a Bafta in 2008 for Gavin & Stacey.
James Corden says he was a castaway long before Desert Island Discs 2012
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Earlier in the week, Harvey cleverly addressed England's on and off love affair with Andy Murray in the poem "one of ours": if ever he's brattish or brutish or skittish he's Scottish but if he looks fittish and his form is hottish he's British
John Lundberg: The Official and Unofficial (and Brilliant and Insane) Poetry of Wimbledon 2010
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It's kind of lead to this kind of arrogant, brattish sort of side of Arthur, which is a bit of a front he puts on, because he can't be seen involving himself with commoners and servants and what have you.
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There is a brattish, clever amorality about Google that allows it to censor the pages on its Chinese service without the slightest self doubt, store vast quantities of unnecessary information about every Google search, and menace the delicate instruments of democratic scrutiny.
Archive 2009-04-01 Andres Guadamuz 2009
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There is a brattish, clever amorality about Google that allows it to censor the pages on its Chinese service without the slightest self doubt, store vast quantities of unnecessary information about every Google search, and menace the delicate instruments of democratic scrutiny.
Is Google an amoral monopoly? Andres Guadamuz 2009
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But Susanna's instincts are often wrong, and it's to Ryder's credit that she shows us both the admirable and the brattish sides of Susanna's character.
A Blue Christmas 2008
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Now even that is too martial for me to slip into everyday language, it's off putting and air-force brattish sounding.
"People like this should be air-dropped into reality. I'll bet dollars to donuts that she voted for Bush. " Ann Althouse 2008
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And when someone catches him at it, he lies about it, just like a brattish child.
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