(n.) A coarse garment or cloak; also, coarse clothing, in general.
(n.) A coarse kind of apron for keeping the clothes clean; a bib.
(n.) A child; an offspring; -- formerly used in a good sense, but now usually in a contemptuous sense.
(n.) The young of an animal.
(n.) A thin bed of coal mixed with pyrites or carbonate of lime.
Example Sentences:
(1) a) synovial bursa ( schleimbeutel ) b) sneeze guard ( Spukschutz ) c) snotty-nosed brat – literally snot spoon ( rotzloeffel ) d) grumpy bastard – literally lump of vomit ( kotzbrocken ) 4,000 Jet-setters complain of a) Jetleg b) Jetleck c) Jetlag d) Jetlack 8,000 Who, if a contestant on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, would definitely not call the Joker?
(2) Founded in 1982, Twenty Twenty is the company behind factual programmes such as The Choir, That'll Teach 'Em', Bad Lads Army, Brat Camp and current BBC2 show Grandad's Back in Business.
(3) The hack by the group Guardians of Peace revealed email conversations between Sony executives and actors, discussing the likes of Pitt’s wife Angelina Jolie, who was described as a “minimally talented spoiled brat” by producer Scott Rudin.
(4) After the jet-black high school satire Heathers pulled the rug out from under John Hughes and his oversharing Brat Pack, in 1989, American adolescents were left with few offerings, most of them wistful odes to another age – either stylistically, as with the overblown, pirate-radio-themed Christian Slater vehicle Pump Up the Volume; or quite literally, in the case of Richard Linklater’s nostalgia-fuelled 70s pastiche, Dazed and Confused.
(5) It’s not only the very young who can be immature comical brats when the music doesn’t go their way.
(6) After Obama's re-election, Nugent said on Twitter: "Pimps whores & welfare brats & their soulless supporters have a president to destroy America."
(7) By the time the dust finally settled in Virginia's primary election earthquake just 7,212 votes separated the House majority leader, Eric Cantor, from his Tea Party nemesis, David Brat.
(8) In the course of their exchanges, Rudin called Angelina Jolie “a minimally talented spoiled brat” with a “rampaging ego”.
(9) Some felt it was the most likable she had ever been while others believed it to be evidence that she was nothing but a spoilt brat.
(10) The shadow defence secretary, Jim Murphy, said on Twitter : "Some of these Tories are foul-mouthed spoilt little brats and now one caught by the Sun."
(11) Rudin described the star as “a minimally talented spoiled brat” in possession of a “rampaging ego”.
(12) With strong support from business groups – which back Republlican leaders on immigration reform – Cantor used his substantial funding advantage to run aggressive attack ads against the relatively unknown Brat.
(13) I just came up short and the voters elected another candidate.” But the Republican heavyweight, once seen as a natural successor to speaker John Boehner, insisted he had not neglected his constituents as Brat has claimed.
(14) "This is a miracle from God," said a triumphant Brat.
(15) But his defeat by Brat, a relatively unknown economics professor, will send shockwaves through a party leadership that thought it had survived the 2014 primary election season with relatively limited damage from the Tea Party.
(16) It sold nearly 3m copies and established Franzen as one of the leading literary voices of his generation, but, thanks to his perceived snub to Winfrey, it also established his reputation as, variously, an "ego-blinded snob" (Boston Globe), a "pompous prick" (Newsweek) and a "spoiled, whiny little brat" (Chicago Tribune).
(17) Cantor’s primary opponent in Virginia’s seventh congressional district, a professor named David Brat, was not backed by any of the national Tea Party organisations.
(18) In one of Sony Pictures’ many hacked emails , producer Scott Rudin called Jolie, an Oscar winner and recipient of the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award , “a minimally talented spoiled brat”.
(19) She's dragged herself from unloved brat to brass to millionaire (via some dead husbands, but let's be real, a good few Guardian readers would do the same if a plush three-bed Victorian terrace was their prize).
(20) But although turnout in the open primary was 28 per cent higher than normal, Cantor’s total vote dropped from 37,698 in 2012 to 28,898 and Brat did best in heavily Republican precincts.
Pagan
Definition:
(n.) One who worships false gods; an idolater; a heathen; one who is neither a Christian, a Mohammedan, nor a Jew.
(n.) Of or pertaining to pagans; relating to the worship or the worshipers of false goods; heathen; idolatrous, as, pagan tribes or superstitions.
Example Sentences:
(1) Professor Ronald Hutton , a leading expert on paganism based at Bristol University, said he believed there were at least 100,000 practising pagans in Britain.
(2) First, medicine was despised as a mechanical art or suspected of paganism because of its literary sources.
(3) Beltran moved to right field so that Pagan could play in center in New York to protect his knees.
(4) Pagan featured in one of the game's key plays, when a line drive hit the third base back and bounced away from Miguel Cabrera for a two-out double that eventually led to a three-run inning.
(5) The most famous image of suffering in the Renaissance was an ancient statue dug up in 1506 of the pagan priest Laocoön being strangled by snakes , his face a contorted image of pure suffering.
(6) This is a question which can be answered in entirely pagan ways, but there, too, you come up against something quite like the Christian problem of evil.
(7) 1.24am BST Cardinals 0 - Giants 0, Bottom 1st Angel Pagan, or Crazy Horse as he is sometimes known gets the crowd up by leading off the inning with a base hit to his old teammate, Carlos Beltran in right.
(8) The rookie shortstop boots it, bobbles it, picks it up and fires home and nails Angel Pagan who is trying to trot home!
(9) A recent proposal (Maggio, M. B., Pagan, J., Parsonage, D., Hatch, L., and Senior, A. E. (1987) J. Biol.
(10) 2.45am BST Giants 5 - Tigers 0, Bottom 4th Pagan grounds out to end the inning, but the Giants tack on another run at AT&T Park.
(11) Pagan can't check his swing on a slider out of the zone, 0-1.
(12) Boko Haram has repeatedly stated its opposition not only to western education - its name means western education is forbidden” in the Hausa language – but also to democracy and secular government, which it regards as a form of “paganism”, and its attacks could intensify to discourage voting.
(13) As a Christian, she is wrestling with the problem of other people's faiths, including paganism.
(14) Starting with standards arising from the relationship between medicine and art in classical antiquity, biblical tradition and teutonic-pagan antiquity, this article roams through german literature from the Middle Ages up to the 20th century, from Hildegard of Bingen to Gottfried Benn and Alfred Döblin, guided by the question, how strongly medical knowledge and medical practise are reflected in the poetry of writing physicians.
(15) Updated at 1.57am BST 1.51am BST Angel Pagan really is a Crazy Horse.
(16) In spite of the hookline ("Smother the fire … "), it retains a seasonally appropriate, huddled under pelts, Game Of Thrones vibe: slightly pagan, but definitely pleasantly warm.
(17) The Giants, who this week brutally lost their starting center fielder, Angel Pagan , for the season, to back surgery, have a mathematical chance at overtaking LA, but more likely will be fighting for home-field advantage in the NL wild-card game.
(18) 1.49am BST Giants 2 - Tigers 0, Top 2nd There are nervous cheers from the Detroit crowd after Pagan grounds out to Fielder at first to retire the side.
(19) One boy was told by his Isis commander: “Even if you see your father, if he is still Yazidi, you must kill him.” Isis has openly referred to the Yazidis as a “pagan minority [whose] existence … Muslims should question”, adding that “their women could be enslaved … as spoils of war”.
(20) On Tuesday, they accused liberal bishops of imposing a "neo-pagan worldview" by supporting gay marriage and claiming there should be "a recognition of God's grace at work in same-sex partnerships".