bramble
See also: Bramble
English
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Etymology
(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English brembel, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English bræmbel, from earlier brǣmel, brēmel, from dialectal (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *brēmila- (compare West Frisian brommel, Flemish bramel, Low German Brommelbeer), diminutive of *brēm- (compare English broom). More at broom.
Pronunciation
Noun
bramble (plural brambles)
- (British) Common blackberry.
- 1944, Miles Burton, chapter 5, in The Three Corpse Trick:
- The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.
- 2016, Ann Burnett, Take a Leaf Out of My Book (page 37)
- Jeanette is making bramble jelly. She is trying to listen to the Morning Story on Radio 4 while she goes about her task. Jeanette's brow is furrowed as she weighs the deep purple fruit and tips the berries into the heavy jelly pan […]
- (US) Any of several closely related thorny plants in the genus Rubus, including blackberry and raspberry.
- Any thorny shrub.
- A cocktail of gin, lemon juice, and blackberry liqueur.
Derived terms
Translations
blackberry
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plant in the genus Rubus
any thorny shrub
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