breme

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/bɹiːm/

adjective

Of the sea, wind, etc.: fierce; raging; stormy, tempestuous.

OriginMiddle English brem ← Old English brēme ← Proto-West Germanic *brōmi →
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Meanings

adjective

alternative brim

  1. Scotlandpoeticobsolete except Northern EnglandOf the sea, wind, etc.: fierce; raging; stormy, tempestuous.

    The same to him glad Summer or the Winter breme.

    1748, James Thomson, The Castle of Indolence: […], London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC
    1 more example

    Let me, ah! lette me in your folds ye lock, / Ere the breme winter breede you greater griefe.

    1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
brimtempestuous

Origin

  1. Proto-Germanic*brōmiz“famous”
  2. Proto-West Germanic*brōmi
  3. Old Englishbrēme“famous, glorious, noble”
  4. Middle Englishbrem
  5. Englishbreme

From Middle English brem, breme, from Old English brēme (“famous, glorious, noble”), from Proto-West Germanic *brōmi, from Proto-Germanic *brōmiz (“famous”). Cognate with Latin fremō (“to murmur; to roar”), Ancient Greek βρέμω (brémō, “to roar”), Polish brzmieć (“to be heard”).

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with breme

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Sounds the same

bream

Anagrams

emberEBMer
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Chicago

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