bruh

See also: brüh

English

Etymology 1

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Noun

bruh (plural bruhs)

1. (archaic) The rhesus macaque.
   • 1838, James Rennie, The Natural History of Monkeys, Opossums and Lemurs:

     […] in adolescence, and still more in youth, it is no less certain that the bruh is both good-natured and intelligent.

Etymology 2

A shortening of brother.

Alternative forms

• bro, brah, bra

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɹʌ/
• Rhymes: -ʌ

Noun

bruh (plural bruhs)

1. (slang) Alternative form of bro

Synonyms

• dude

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “bruh”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Buhr, burh

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *břuxъ (“belly”).

Noun

brȕh m

1. (regional, Croatia) hernia
2. (regional, Croatia) belly