brim

== English == === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /bɹɪm/ Rhymes: -ɪm === Etymology 1 === The noun is derived from Middle English brymme, brimme (“bank or edge of a lake or river; shore of a sea; brink; rim”); of unclear origin; compare Middle High German brem (“margin”). The verb is derived from the noun. ==== Noun ==== brim (plural brims) Originally, a border or edge of a sea, a river, or other body of water; now, any border or edge. The topmost lip or rim of a container, or a natural feature shaped like a container. A projecting rim. (especially) That of a hat. Synonyms: bill, hatbrim (archaic or poetic) The upper edge or surface of water. (obsolete) The surface of the ground. (figurative) A brink or edge. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== ==== Verb ==== brim (third-person singular simple present brims, present participle brimming, simple past and past participle brimmed) (transitive) To fill (a container) to the brim (noun etymology 1, noun sense 1.1), top, or upper edge. (figurative) To fill (something) fully. (intransitive, also figurative) To be full until almost overflowing. Synonyms: teem, bulge ===== Conjugation ===== ===== Derived terms ===== brimmed (adjective) brimmer brimming (adjective, noun) brim over ===== Translations ===== ==== Synonyms ==== === Etymology 2 === Inherited from Northern Middle English brym, bryme (“waterbody”), from Old English brim (“sea, surf”), from Proto-Germanic *brimą (“turbulence, surge; surf, sea”), from Proto-Germanic *bremaną (“to roar”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrem- (“to hum, make a noise”). ==== Noun ==== brim (plural brims) (obsolete) (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:) The sea; ocean; water; flood. ===== Derived terms ===== brimsand === Etymology 3 === A variant of bream. ==== Noun ==== brim (plural brim or brims) (Australia, US) Synonym of bream (“a freshwater fish from one of a number of genera”); specifically (US), the redbreast sunfish (Lepomis auritus). ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 4 === The verb is derived from Middle English brimmen (“of pigs: to be in heat or rut; to breed; to bear fruit”), either: modified from brem, breme (“of animals: ferocious, savage; of fire, the sea, a storm, etc.: raging, severe, tempestuous; glorious, splendid; etc.”, adjective) (whence modern English breme (“(obsolete) fierce, stormy, tempestuous”)), from Old English brēme (“(poetic) glorious; famous, renowned”), from Proto-West Germanic *brōmi, from Proto-Germanic *brōmiz (“famous”); or directly from Old English bremman (“to rage; to roar”) (though not attested in Middle English), from Proto-Germanic *bramjaną, *bremaną (“to roar”); both from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrem- (“to make noise”). The noun is derived from Middle English brim, from the verb: see above. ==== Verb ==== brim (third-person singular simple present brims, present participle brimming, simple past and past participle brimmed) (archaic) (transitive) Of a boar (“male pig”): to mate with (a sow (“female pig”)); to rut. (intransitive) Of a sow: to be in heat; to rut; also, to mate with a boar. ===== Translations ===== ==== Noun ==== brim (plural brims) (archaic) The period when a sow (“female pig”) is ready to mate; a heat, an oestrus, a rut; also, an act of a boar (“male pig”) and sow mating. ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 5 === A variant of breme. ==== Adjective ==== brim (comparative more brim, superlative most brim) (obsolete except Northern England, Scotland or poetic) Synonym of breme (“of the sea, wind, etc.: fierce; raging; stormy, tempestuous”). ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 6 === Clipping of brimstone (“sulphur; (figurative) a domineering, scolding woman”). ==== Noun ==== brim (plural brims) (UK, slang, obsolete except dialectal) An irascible, violent woman. Synonyms: see Thesaurus:shrew === References === === Further reading === hat brim on Wikipedia.Wikipedia brim (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia === Anagrams === IBMR, IRBM == Indonesian == === Etymology === From English brim. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [ˈbrɪm] Hyphenation: brim === Noun === brim (plural brim-brim) brim: a projecting rim of a hat === Further reading === “brim”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016 == Maltese == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /briːm/ Rhymes: -iːm === Noun === brim m verbal noun of baram == Middle English == === Etymology 1 === ==== Adjective ==== brim alternative form of brym (“fierce”) ==== Adverb ==== brim alternative form of brym (“fiercely”) === Etymology 2 === ==== Noun ==== brim alternative form of brym (“waterbody”) === Etymology 3 === ==== Noun ==== brim alternative form of brymme == Old English == === Etymology === From Proto-Germanic *brimą (“turbulence, surge; surf, sea”), from Proto-Germanic *bremaną (“to roar”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrem- (“to hum, make a noise”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /brim/ Rhymes: -im === Noun === brim n or m (poetic) sea, ocean, water (poetic) surf; the surface of the sea (Can we verify(+) this sense?) (poetic) the edge of the sea or a body of water ==== Declension ==== Strong a-stem: Strong a-stem: ==== Derived terms ==== brimċeald (“cold as the sea”) brimhenġest (“ship”) brimlīþend (“sailor”) brimmann (“sailor”) brimwudu (“ship”) ==== Descendants ==== Middle English: brym, brim, brymeEnglish: brim (obsolete) == Old Norse == === Etymology === From Proto-Germanic *brimą. === Noun === brim n (poetic) surf; the surface of the sea (poetic) sea, ocean, water ==== Declension ==== ==== Descendants ==== Icelandic: brim Faroese: brim Norwegian Bokmål: brim === Further reading === Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “brim”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive