Also in 6 bratchart, bratshard. [Apparently the same word as BRACHET: cf. the application of whelp, cub, etc., to a child; but perhaps associated with BRAT sb.2 as if a diminutive of that.]
1. = BRACHET.
2. A little brat, a child. (contemptuous or playful.)
a. 1600. Montgomerie, Flyting, 284. That bratchart in ane busse vvas borne.
1832–53. Whistle-binkie (Sc. Songs), Ser. III. 74. I … took the bratchet [Cupid] on my knee.
attrib. 1821. Scott, Kenilw., xl. To play … child-keeper … to be plagued with a bratchet whelp.
