birse
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Scots birse (“bristle, hair”).
Noun[edit]
birse (plural birses)
Derived terms[edit]
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for birse in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Anagrams[edit]
Scots[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
birse (plural birses)
Derived terms[edit]
- birsies (“bristles”) (diminutive)
- pit the birse up (“to make angry or ill-tempered”)
- whirl o birse (“the ace of spades”)
Verb[edit]
birse (third-person singular present birses, present participle birsin, past birsed, past participle birsed)
Derived terms[edit]
- birsie (“bristly, hairy; hot-tempered, passionate; of the weather: keen, sharp; difficult”)
- birsed-ends (“a shoemaker's thread”)
Etymology 2[edit]
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
birse (plural birses)
Verb[edit]
birse (third-person singular present birses, present participle birsin, past birsed, past participle birsed)
- to bruise
- to push, press, squeeze
Derived terms[edit]
- birse ben a bit (“move along a bit”)
- birse tae (“push to”)