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bratt

2740.
Breeze (Andrew): Irish brat ‘cloak, cloth’: English brat ‘child’.
In ZCP 47 (1995), pp. 89–92.
Derives (Sc. and) Engl. brat ‘child’ < Ir. braitt ‘swaddling’ through metonymy.
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