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brim
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /b??m/
- Rhymes: -?m
Etymology 1
From Middle English brim, from Old English brim (“surf, flood, wave, sea, ocean, water, sea-edge, shore”), from Proto-Germanic *brim? (“turbulence, surge; surf, sea”), from Proto-Germanic *breman? (“to roar”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?rem-, *b?erem-, *b?rem(e)-, *breme- (“to hum, make a noise”). Cognate with Icelandic brim (“sea, surf”), Old English brymm, brym (“sea, waves”), Old English bremman (“to rage, roar”), Dutch brommen (“to hum, buzz”), German brummen (“to hum, drone”), Latin frem? (“roar, growl”, verb), Ancient Greek ????? (brém?, “roar, roar like the ocean”, verb).
Noun
brim (plural brims)
- (obsolete) The sea; ocean; water; flood.
Derived terms
- brimsand
Etymology 2
From Middle English brim, brem, brimme (“margin, edge of a river, lake, or sea”), probably from Middle English brim (“sea, ocean, surf, shore”). See above. Cognate with Dutch berm (“bank, riverbank”), Bavarian Bräm (“border, stripe”), German Bräme, Brame (“border, edge”), Danish bræmme (“border, edge, brim”), Swedish bräm (“border, edge”), Icelandic barmur (“edge, verge, brink”). Related to berm.
Noun
brim (plural brims)
- An edge or border (originally specifically of the sea or a body of water).
- The feet of the priest that bare the ark were dipped in the brim of the water.
- 1819, "A Portrait", in Peter Bell
- A primrose by a river ' s brim
- The topmost rim or lip of a container.
- 1813, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Remorse
- Saw I that insect on this goblet's brim / I would remove it with an anxious pity.
- 1813, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Remorse
- A projecting rim, especially of a hat.
Derived terms
- brimful
- to the brim
Translations
Verb
brim (third-person singular simple present brims, present participle brimming, simple past and past participle brimmed)
- (intransitive) To be full to overflowing.
- The room brimmed with people.
- 2006 New York Times
- It was a hint of life in a place that still brims with memories of death, a reminder that even five years later, the attacks are not so very distant.
- (transitive) To fill to the brim, upper edge, or top.
- Tennyson:
- Arrange the board and brim the glass.
- Tennyson:
Translations
Etymology 3
Either from breme, or directly from Old English bremman (“to roar, rage”) (though not attested in Middle English).
Verb
brim (third-person singular simple present brims, present participle brimming, simple past and past participle brimmed)
- Of pigs: to be in heat, to rut.
Etymology 4
See breme.
Adjective
brim (comparative more brim, superlative most brim)
- (obsolete) Fierce; sharp; cold.
Anagrams
- IBMR, IRBM
Indonesian
Etymology
From English brim, from Middle English brim, brem, brimme (“margin, edge of a river, lake, or sea”), probably from Middle English brim (“sea, ocean, surf, shore”), from Proto-Germanic *brim? (“turbulence, surge; surf, sea”), from Proto-Germanic *breman? (“to roar”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?rem-, *b?erem-, *b?rem(e)-, *breme- (“to hum, make a noise”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?br?m]
- Hyphenation: brim
Noun
brim (first-person possessive brimku, second-person possessive brimmu, third-person possessive brimnya)
- brim: a projecting rim of a hat.
Further reading
- “brim” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.
Old English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /brim/
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *brim?.
Noun
brim n
- (poetic) the edge of the sea or a body of water
- (poetic) surf; the surface of the sea
- (poetic) sea, ocean, water
Declension
Derived terms
- briml?þend
Old Norse
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *brim?.
Noun
brim n
- surf
Declension
References
- brim in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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brig
English
Pronunciation
- IPA: /b???/
- Rhymes: -??
Etymology 1
Abbreviated from brigantine, from Italian brigantino; in sense “jail”, from the use of such ships as prisons.
Noun
brig (plural brigs)
- (nautical) A two-masted vessel, square-rigged on both foremast and mainmast
- (US) A jail or guardhouse, especially in a naval military prison or jail on a ship, navy base, or (in fiction) spacecraft.
Translations
See also
- hermaphrodite brig
- gun-brig
Etymology 2
From Scots brig, from Old Norse bryggja, from Proto-Germanic *brugj?. Doublet of bridge.
Noun
brig (plural brigs)
- (Scotland, Northern Ireland, Northern England) Bridge.
Etymology 3
Clipping of brigadier
Noun
brig (plural brigs)
- Brigadier.
References
- Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
Anagrams
- RGBI
Middle English
Etymology 1
Inherited from Old English bry??.
Noun
brig
- Alternative form of brigge
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Old Norse bryggja. Doublet of brigge.
Noun
brig
- bridge
Alternative forms
- brigg, bryg, bregg
Descendants
- Scots: brig, brigg, breeg
- ? English: brig, brigg
Old Irish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /b?r?i??/
Noun
brig
- inflection of brí:
- accusative/dative singular
- nominative/vocative/accusative dual/plural
Mutation
Polabian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *berg?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /brik/
Noun
brig m
- bank, shore (of a river)
Scots
Alternative forms
- brigg, breeg
Etymology
From Middle English brig, from Old Norse bryggja.
Noun
brig
- bridge
Descendants
- ? English: brig, brigg
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From English brig.
Noun
brig m (Cyrillic spelling ????)
- A brig (two-masted vessel)
Synonyms
- brik
Welsh
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bri??/
Noun
brig m (plural brigau)
- crest, peak, summit, top
Mutation
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