Brat
The Cognitive Gap or Leap: Historically, brat carried negative connotations, describing children who were unruly or spoiled. However, as societal views on self-expression and nonconformity shifted, the term began to acquire a more positive spin, especially within music and fashion circles. (Quoted) This post was written by Kel on Aussie Idioms - Today the changing meaning of BRAT and naughty Children and a Brat Pack. You might wish to follow Kel and his posts on Aussie Slang. OZWORD OF THE DAY: "Brat"I keep running into ‘brat’ as the trendiest word of the moment. The hyper-hip online Urban Dictionary seems to define it in negative terms. According to the Urban Dictionary being a ‘brat’ means being ‘submissive.’ That doesn’t sound like a good thing, does it? Here’s what their definition says (and, yes, this is supposed to be a English sentence)— ‘brat’ means ‘A submissive that likes to push their dom’s buttons on purpose hoping that they’ll punish them.’ Clearly that is a definition that itself requires a bit of defining. Apparently a ‘dom’ is a ‘dominant’ partner, and ‘punish’ in that definition means ‘to have sex.’ But it still sounds as though (for Gen Z and other infants) this is a good thing to be, since the word is now ubiquitous. Dictionary.com takes a totally different line from the Urban Dictionary and says that: ‘In modern pop culture, the word brat refers to someone who is confidently rebellious, unapologetically bold, and…