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breeze
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /b?i?z/
- Rhymes: -i?z
Etymology 1
From the earlier (nautical) term brise, brize (“breeze”), from Middle English brees (“wind”). Ultimate origin obscure.
Variously supposed to derive from a Germanic source like Saterland Frisian Briese (“breeze”), West Frisian brys (“a cool wind”), Dutch bries (“breeze”), early Dutch brysen (“to blow cool and fresh”), or from Spanish brisa (“northeast wind”).
The earliest attestations are in Middle English brees (1460), Catalan brisa, and Italian brezza (all in 15th century), with Spanish (1504) and Portuguese briza (16th century) following closely after. The aforementioned Dutch cognates and French brise, however, are attested later than the term in English. The only internal hypothesis for any of those languages is a corruption of Old Occitan bisa (“strong wind”), which is not widely accepted.
Compare also Albanian breshër (“hail”).
Alternative forms
- brize (obsolete)
- briess (obsolete)
Noun
breeze (plural breezes)
- A light, gentle wind.
- 1793, William Wordsworth, An Evening Walk
- Into a gradual calm the breezes sink.
- Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.
- 1793, William Wordsworth, An Evening Walk
- (figuratively) Any activity that is easy, not testing or difficult.
- (cricket) Wind blowing across a cricket match, whatever its strength.
- Ashes and residue of coal or charcoal, usually from a furnace. See Wikipedia article on Clinker.
- An excited or ruffled state of feeling; a flurry of excitement; a disturbance; a quarrel.
- A brief workout for a racehorse.
Synonyms
- see also Thesaurus:wind
- cakewalk, cinch, doddle, piece of cake, walk in the park, walkover; see also Thesaurus:easy thing
Coordinate terms
- (gentle wind): gale, hurricane, storm
Derived terms
- breezen
Translations
See also
- breeze block
- Wikipedia article on the Beaufort scale
Verb
breeze (third-person singular simple present breezes, present participle breezing, simple past and past participle breezed) (intransitive)
- (usually with along) To move casually, in a carefree manner.
- (weather) To blow gently.
- To take a horse on a light run in order to understand the running characteristics of the horse and to observe it while under motion.
Translations
References
Etymology 2
From Middle English brese, from Old English br?osa, variant of Old English brimsa (“gadfly”), from Proto-Germanic *bremus? (“gadfly”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?erem- (“to make a noise, buzz, hum”). Cognate with Dutch brems (“horsefly, warblefly”), German Bremse (“gadfly, horsefly”), Danish bremse (“gadfly, horsefly”), Swedish broms (“gadfly, horsefly”). Related also to Middle English brimse (“gadfly”), French brize (“gadfly”), Old English bremman (“to rage, roar”), Latin frem? (“roar, snort, growl, grumble”). See also bream.
Alternative forms
- breese
- brize
Noun
breeze (plural breezes)
- A gadfly; a horsefly; a strong-bodied dipterous insect of the family Tabanidae.
Verb
breeze (third-person singular simple present breezes, present participle breezing, simple past and past participle breezed)
- (intransitive) To buzz.
Anagrams
- beezer
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swagger
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?swæ?.?/
- (US) IPA(key): /?swæ?.?/
- Rhymes: -æ??(r)
Etymology 1
A frequentative form of swag (“to sway”), first attested in 1590, in A Midsummer Night's Dream III.i.79:
- PUCK: What hempen homespuns have we swaggering here?
Verb
swagger (third-person singular simple present swaggers, present participle swaggering, simple past and past participle swaggered)
- To behave (especially to walk or carry oneself) in a pompous, superior manner.
- 1845, Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil
- a man who swaggers about London clubs
- 1845, Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil
- To boast or brag noisily; to bluster; to bully.
- 1698, Jeremy Collier, A Moral Essay upon Pride
- To be great is not […] to swagger at our footmen.
- 1724, Jonathan Swift, The Drapier’s Letters, Dublin and London, 1730, Letter 1, p. 14,[1]
- For the common Soldier when he goes to the Market or Ale-house will offer this Money, and if it be refused, perhaps he will SWAGGER and HECTOR, and Threaten to Beat the BUTCHER or Ale-Wife, or take the Goods by Force, and throw them the bad HALF-PENCE.
- 1698, Jeremy Collier, A Moral Essay upon Pride
- To walk with a swaying motion.
Derived terms
- swaggerer
- swaggeringly
- swagger it
- aswagger
Translations
Noun
swagger (countable and uncountable, plural swaggers)
- Confidence, pride.
- A bold or arrogant strut.
- A prideful boasting or bragging.
Translations
Adjective
swagger (comparative more swagger, superlative most swagger)
- (slang, archaic) Fashionable; trendy.
- 1899, Robert Barr, Jennie Baxter, Journalist
- It is to be a very swagger affair, with notables from every part of Europe, and they seem determined that no one connected with a newspaper shall be admitted.
- 15 March, 1896, Ernest Rutherford, letter to Mary Newton
- Mrs J.J. [Thomson] looked very well and was dressed very swagger and made a very fine hostess.
- 1908, Baroness Orczy, The Old Man in the Corner
- Mrs. Morton was well known for her Americanisms, her swagger dinner parties, and beautiful Paris gowns.
- 1899, Robert Barr, Jennie Baxter, Journalist
Etymology 2
Noun
swagger (plural swaggers)
- (Australia, New Zealand, historical) Synonym of swagman
References
Anagrams
- waggers
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