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means A person—often a kid—who's spoiled, unruly, or obnoxiously demanding, though these days it's been reclaimed as a badge of unbothered, chaotic confidence.

from Brat traces back to Old English 'bratt,' meaning a cloak or coarse garment, likely borrowed from a Celtic word for cloth. By the 1500s it had drifted to mean a beggar's child — someone defined by their ragged covering — and from there slid into simply meaning an ill-behaved kid. The exact leap from 'cloak' to 'unruly child' isn't fully documented, just the plausible path of poverty-garment-to-the-wearer. Its 2020s rebrand into a term of feral-glamour pride is a much more recent, well-documented cultural flip.