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browse
English
Etymology
Middle English browsen, from Old French brouster, broster (“to nibble off buds, sprouts, and bark; browse”), from brost (“a sprout, shoot, bud”), from a Germanic source, perhaps Frankish *brust (“shoot, bud”), from Proto-Germanic *brustiz (“bud, shoot”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?rews- (“to swell, sprout”). Cognate with Bavarian Bross, Brosst (“a bud”), Old Saxon brustian (“to sprout”). Doublet of brut, breast, and brush.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /b?a?z/
- Homophone: brows
- Rhymes: -a?z
Verb
browse (third-person singular simple present browses, present participle browsing, simple past and past participle browsed)
- To scan, to casually look through in order to find items of interest, especially without knowledge of what to look for beforehand.
- To move about while sampling, such as with food or products on display.
- (transitive, computing) To navigate through hyperlinked documents on a computer, usually with a browser.
- (intransitive, of an animal) To move about while eating parts of plants, especially plants other than pasture, such as shrubs or trees.
- 1997, Colorado State Forest Service
- Also, when planting to provide a source of browse for wintering deer and elk, protect seedlings from browsing during the first several years; an electric fence enclosure can offer effective protection.
- 1997, Colorado State Forest Service
- (archaic, transitive) To feed on, as pasture; to pasture on; to graze.
- ?, Alfred Tennyson, The Gardener's Daughter; or, The Pictures
- Fields […] browsed by deep-udder'd kine.
- ?, Alfred Tennyson, The Gardener's Daughter; or, The Pictures
Derived terms
- browser
- browsable
Translations
Noun
browse (plural browses)
- Young shoots and twigs.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.10:
- And with their horned feet the greene gras wore, / The whiles their Gotes upon the brouzes fedd […]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.10:
- Fodder for cattle and other animals.
- 1997, Colorado State Forest Service
- Also, when planting to provide a source of browse for wintering deer and elk, protect seedlings from browsing during the first several years; an electric fence enclosure can offer effective protection.
- 2007, Texas Parks and Wildlife Service
- In the Panhandle Area, bison eat browse that includes mesquite and elm.
- 1997, Colorado State Forest Service
Further reading
- browse in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- browse in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- Bowers, Bowser, bowers, bowres, bowser
Danish
Verb
browse (imperative brows, present browser, past browsede, past participle browset)
- (computing) to browse
Dutch
Pronunciation
Verb
browse
- first-person singular present indicative of browsen
- (archaic) singular present subjunctive of browsen
- imperative of browsen
German
Verb
browse
- inflection of browsen:
- first-person singular present
- first/third-person singular subjunctive I
- singular imperative
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babushka
English
Alternative forms
- babooshka, baboushka
Etymology
Borrowed from Russian ???????? (bábuška, “grandmother, granny”), diminutive of ????? (bába, “old woman”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /b??bu??.k?/
Noun
babushka (plural babushkas)
- An old woman.
- A stereotypical Eastern European peasant grandmother type figure
- A woman’s headscarf, tied under the chin.
- 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin 2006, p. 78:
- The crowd falls silent, momentarily stunned, while a heavyset woman in a babushka pushes her way through, broadcasting the news […].
- 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin 2006, p. 78:
- Russian doll, matryoshka
Translations
Usage notes
- Note that the Russian term ???????? (bábuška, “grandmother, granny; old woman”) doesn't have the sense "Russian doll, matryoshka" or "woman’s headscarf".
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