What's the difference between brat and spoil?

Brat


Definition:

  • (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.

Spoil


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To plunder; to strip by violence; to pillage; to rob; -- with of before the name of the thing taken; as, to spoil one of his goods or possession.
  • (v. t.) To seize by violence;; to take by force; to plunder.
  • (v. t.) To cause to decay and perish; to corrput; to vitiate; to mar.
  • (v. t.) To render useless by injury; to injure fatally; to ruin; to destroy; as, to spoil paper; to have the crops spoiled by insects; to spoil the eyes by reading.
  • (v. i.) To practice plunder or robbery.
  • (v. i.) To lose the valuable qualities; to be corrupted; to decay; as, fruit will soon spoil in warm weather.
  • (n.) That which is taken from another by violence; especially, the plunder taken from an enemy; pillage; booty.
  • (n.) Public offices and their emoluments regarded as the peculiar property of a successful party or faction, to be bestowed for its own advantage; -- commonly in the plural; as to the victor belong the spoils.
  • (n.) That which is gained by strength or effort.
  • (n.) The act or practice of plundering; robbery; aste.
  • (n.) Corruption; cause of corruption.
  • (n.) The slough, or cast skin, of a serpent or other animal.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Wimbledon champion Marion Bartoli said she would not let comments about her appearance by the BBC presenter John Inverdale spoil the greatest day of her life.
  • (2) In a ruling rejecting any claims to the "spoils of war," New York's highest court concluded Thursday that an ancient gold tablet must be returned to the German museum that lost it in the Second world war .
  • (3) Acanthamoeba culbertsoni was isolated from a sewage-spoil dump site near Ambrose Light, New York Bight.
  • (4) We tested 1,145 isolates from fresh and spoiling irradiated (0.0, 0.3, and 0.6 Mrad) yellow perch fillets for proteolytic activity, by the use of both media.
  • (5) The few who enjoy themselves thoughtlessly, going against the green Glastonbury ethos , spoil it for the many.
  • (6) Spoiled fish of the families, Scombridae and Scomberesocidae (e.g.
  • (7) Spoiling periods of ca 1-2 ms with driving currents of ca 0.5-1.0 A are predicted to be adequate for surface-spoiling experiments with rat, e.g., for noninvasive monitoring of liver.
  • (8) Magnetic resonance arteriograms of healthy volunteers and selected patients were produced with a new spoiled gradient-echo pulse sequence based on time-of-flight phenomena.
  • (9) In the spoiled samples, the highest total counts were 820 million in buttermilk biscuits.
  • (10) Hagenbeck’s zoo would be a celebration of the German colonial project and its spoils, from German South-West Africa (present-day Namibia) to German East Africa (present-day Burundi, Rwanda and mainland Tanzania).
  • (11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The spoils of war: pro-Russia rebels recover a tank (left) abandoned by retreating Ukrainian troops.
  • (12) Deliberately spoiled mackerel samples and mackerel samples implicated in outbreaks of scombrotoxicosis were, under medical supervision, tested blind on normal, healthy volunteers of both sexes.
  • (13) So far the Republican primary has spoiled us, from Rick Perry's "oops" to corporate asset-stripper Mitt Romney's admission that he liked firing people, delivered just before he was snapped apparently receiving a sit-down shoe-shine from an underling – not a good look for a would-be man of the people.
  • (14) Magnetic resonance angiography of the pulmonary vasculature was evaluated in 12 subjects using breath-hold gradient echo scans and surface coils at 1.5 T. Flow-compensated GRASS, spoiled GRASS (SPGR), and WARP-SPGR sequences were utilized.
  • (15) Mawer said some junior members may have been paid a fee, with bigger fish getting a share of the spoils.
  • (16) This magnificent quintet of gems was, alas, the sum total of the factual and subjective spoils of which the committee was able to relieve him over two-and-a-half long hours.
  • (17) Economics didn't start out trying to spoil our fun.
  • (18) Sid Ward, teacher, 38, Kingsbridge, Devon (now living in Herefordshire) ‘Properties are empty, so the community is empty’ Second homes destroy the fabric of the town and spoil the very things that made it attractive to the second home owner in the first place.
  • (19) But Pence, close observers said, simply advocated such ideas ahead of their time, at a moment when Republican leadership still feared that the “war on women” label would spoil their standing with the public in the 2012 election.
  • (20) The script was written but Burnley spoiled Cole and Lambert’s happy ending.