brim
English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle English brim, from Old English brim (“surf, flood, wave, sea, ocean, water, sea-edge, shore”), from Proto-Germanic *brimą (“turbulence, surge; surf, sea”), from Proto-Germanic *bremaną (“to roar”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrem-, *bʰerem-, *bʰrem(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 fremō (“roar, growl”, verb), Ancient Greek βρέμω (brémō, “roar, roar like the ocean”, verb).
Noun
brim (plural brims)
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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).
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Joshua 3:15:
- 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.
- The toy box was filled to the brim with stuffed animals.
- 1813, S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, Remorse. A Tragedy, […], London: […] W. Pople, […], →OCLC, (please specify the page):
- Saw I that insect on this goblet's brim / I would remove it with an anxious pity.
- A projecting rim, especially of a hat.
- He turned the back of his brim up stylishly.
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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.
- 1842, Alfred Tennyson, “The Day-Dream. The Sleeping Palace.”, in Poems. […], volume II, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 151:
- The beams that thro' the Oriel shine / Make prisms in every carven glass, / And beaker brimm'd with noble wine.
- 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.
- 2011 July 3, Piers Newbury, “Wimbledon 2011: Novak Djokovic beats Rafael Nadal in final”, in BBC Sport[1]:
- Djokovic, brimming with energy and confidence, needed little encouragement and came haring in to chase down a drop shot in the next game, angling away the backhand to break before turning to his supporters to celebrate.
- (transitive) To fill to the brim, upper edge, or top.
- 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, (please specify |part=Prologue or Rpilogue, or |canto=I to CXXIX):
- Arrange the board and brim the glass.
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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)
Etymology 4
See breme.
Adjective
brim (comparative more brim, superlative most brim)
Anagrams
Indonesian
Etymology
Pronunciation
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, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Maltese
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Pronunciation
Noun
brim m
- verbal noun of baram
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *brimą.
Pronunciation
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
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Old Norse
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *brimą.
Noun
brim n
Declension
References
- “brim”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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