upbring

English

Etymology

From Middle English upbringen, equivalent to up- +‎ bring. Cognate with Saterland Frisian apbrange, West Frisian opbringe, Dutch opbrengen, German Low German upbrengen, German aufbringen, Danish opbringe, Swedish uppbringa.

Verb

upbring (third-person singular simple present upbrings, present participle upbringing, simple past and past participle upbrought)

1. (obsolete) To bring up.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     From mothers pap I taken was vnfit: / And streight deliuered to a Faery knight, / To be vpbrought in gentle thewes and martiall might.

Derived terms

• upbringing

Anagrams

• bring up, burping