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firebrat

noun

Etymology

From fire + brat, after their habit of collecting near furnaces.

  1. derived from bratt — “cloak”
  2. derived from bratchet — “bitch, hound”
  3. compounded as firebrat — “fire + brat”

Definitions

  1. A thysanuran insect, Thermobia domestica.

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