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Brill

//bɹɪl// adj, name, noun, slang

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Clipping of brilliant; wonderful, amusing; cool. UK, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, slang

    "That song is totally brill, innit!"

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
  2. 2
    A village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England, previously in Aylesbury Vale district (OS grid ref SP6514).
  3. 3
    A hamlet in Constantine parish, south-west Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SW7229).
  4. 4
    A neighbourhood of Elberfeld, Wuppertal, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
  5. 5
    An unincorporated community in the town of Oak Grove, Barron County, Wisconsin, United States.
Noun
  1. 1
    A type of flatfish, Scophthalmus rhombus.
  2. 2
    European food fish wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

Possibly from Cornish brilli (“mackerel”), from brithelli, plural of brithel (“mackerel”), from brith (“spotted”), from Proto-Brythonic *briθ.

Etymology 2

* As an English surname, from Brill in Buckinghamshire, said to be from Proto-Brythonic *breɣ (“hill”) + Old English hyll (“hill”). * As a Dutch and north German surname, from Middle Low German brul (“low wetland”). Compare the variant Bruehl. * Also as a German surname, from the noun Brille (“eyeglasses”). * As a Jewish surname, from a Hebrew acronym of בן רבי (ben rabi, “son of rabbi”) followed by a Yiddish personal name, such as "Ben Rabbi Yehuda Levi".

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