different between vroom vs brrm

English

Etymology

Imitative

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /v?u?m/
• (US) IPA^(key): /v?um/, /v??m/
• Rhymes: -u?m, -?m

Interjection

vroom

1. The sound of an engine revving up.

   I never saw my uncle’s Ferrari, but I could always hear it going vroom as it flew past by my house.

Translations

Noun

vroom (plural vrooms)

1. The sound of an engine revving up.
   • 2003, Los Angeles Magazine (volume 48, number 2, page 52)

     Our ears are assaulted with the screeching of tires, the crashing of trash cans, the exaggerated vrooms of a revving engine.

Verb

vroom (third-person singular simple present vrooms, present participle vrooming, simple past and past participle vroomed)

1. (informal) To move with great speed; to zoom.

See also

• putt putt

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch vr?me (“firm, upright”), an adjective derived from the noun vr?me (“benefit, use”), from Old Dutch *fruma, from Proto-Germanic *frumô.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vro?m/
• Hyphenation: vroom
• Rhymes: -o?m

Adjective

vroom (comparative vromer, superlative vroomst)

1. pious, devout

   Synonym: godvruchtig

Inflection

Derived terms

• vroomheid

English

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Interjection

brrm

1. (especially used by children) The sound of a car engine.

See also

• vroom