bratchet /(brăch"ĕt)/

bratch·et

bratchet

n.
  1. a kind of hound; a brach; -- applied contemptuously to a child. See also brach.
    The bratchet's bay From the dark covert drove the prey.
    — Scott, (Marmion, ii. int.).
    To be plagued with a bratchet whelp -- Whence came ye, my fair-favoured little gossip? .