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Bris

//bɹɪs// name, noun, slang

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Brisbane, Australia. colloquial
Noun
  1. 1
    Ritual male circumcision. Judaism

    "The night before the bris, he invited nine of his little buddies to come and say kerias shema around the baby's bassinet. Mommy and Daddy, who flew in for the bris, were so touched, they kept dabbing their eyes and coughing."

  2. 2
    the Jewish rite of circumcision performed on a male child on the eighth day of his life wordnet

Etymology

Borrowed from Yiddish ברית (bris), from Hebrew בְּרִית (bərîṯ, “covenant”).

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