brat的词源

英文词源

brat: brat: [16] The origins of brat are not altogether clear, but it has plausibly been connected with the English dialect brat ‘makeshift or ragged garment’, as being the sort of apparel a rough or ill-mannered child might wear. This brat first appeared in late Old English as bratt, meaning ‘cloak’, a borrowing from Old Irish bratt ‘covering, mantle’.
brat (n.): c. 1500, slang, "beggar's child," originally northern, Midlands and western England dialect word for "makeshift or ragged garment;" probably the same word as Old English bratt "cloak," which is from a Celtic source (compare Old Irish bratt "cloak, cloth"). The modern meaning is perhaps from notion of "child's apron." Hollywood Brat Pack (modeled on 1950s Rat Pack) is from 1985.

发音释义：[bræt] n.顽童；被宠坏的、举止粗鲁的儿童

词源解释：brat一词来自古英语方言，意思是“破烂衣服”、“斗篷”，在15世纪的俚语中表示“乞丐的孩子”，后来衍生出现代的“顽童、举止粗鲁的儿童”之意。

助记窍门：brat→boy rat→老鼠一样的男孩子→顽童

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词源不详。可能来自break, 破的。原指穿破衣服的乞丐的孩子，缺乏管教的。