Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
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brand-new .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective See
brand-new .
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- adjective archaic
brand new
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective conspicuously new
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Examples
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Great shot of the than bran-new “Hercules” pinball.
Ohio Music and Amusement Exposition of 1979 - The Retroist 2010
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The Times letter alluded to the Scarecrow's bran-new sharp brains in his head, and the Cowardly Lion's drink of courage -- details from L. Frank Baum's book.
Archive 2008-09-01 2008
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The Times letter alluded to the Scarecrow's bran-new sharp brains in his head, and the Cowardly Lion's drink of courage -- details from L. Frank Baum's book.
The MGM Wizard of Oz 2008
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Camilla detained him; 'Look, I adjure you,' cried he, addressing her, 'if there's not that delightful creature again, with his bran-new clothes? and they sit upon him so tight, he can't turn round his vastly droll figure, except like a puppet with one jerk for the whole body.
Camilla 2008
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I start this section with a post from a bran-new bioinformatics blog called Bioinformatics Zen.
Archive 2007-03-01 Pedro Beltrao 2007
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Wherever it was, he went upon it, with a bran-new ladder, a white hat, a brown holland jacket and trousers, a blue neck-kerchief, and a sprig of full-blown double wall-flower in his button-hole.
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Wherever it was, he went upon it, with a bran-new ladder, a white hat, a brown holland jacket and trousers, a blue neck-kerchief, and a sprig of full-blown double wall-flower in his button-hole.
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I start this section with a post from a bran-new bioinformatics blog called Bioinformatics Zen.
Public Rambling Pedro Beltrao 2007
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His bran-new leather breeches were exceedingly tight, and greatly incommoded the rapidity of his retreating movement, but he ran away, sir, and afterwards begot your obedient servant.
The Newcomes 2006
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He held out two bran-new lavender-coloured kid gloves to shake hands with his dear
The Newcomes 2006
qroqqa commented on the word bran-new
Unlikely to be an eggcorn: people didn't reinterpret the unfamiliar 'brand' as familiar 'bran', I'd suggest, since 'bran new' makes no sense. Rather this is phonetic: the /d/ disappeared just as the medial /t/ in 'last night' or 'postman' does.
March 3, 2009