[f. BRAT sb.2 + -LING.] A little brat, an infant.
1652. Brome, Jov. Crew, II. Wks. 1873, III. 387. The Bratling’s born, the Doxey’s in the Strummel.
1796. Coleridge, in Cottle, Remin. (1847), 100. We are all—wife, bratling, and self, remarkably well.
