Breme

//bɹiːm// adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of the sea, wind, etc.: fierce; raging; stormy, tempestuous. Scotland, poetic

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

  2. 2
    Keen, sharp, alert. archaic

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brimtempestuous

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

Etymology

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 (“I murmur; I roar”), Ancient Greek βρέμω (brémō, “I roar”), Polish brzmieć (“to be heard”).

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