Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Hasty; violent; fierce.
- noun Violence; fierceness.
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- noun
Violence ;fierceness ;anger ;fury ;fit ofrage . - adjective
Hasty ;violent ;fierce ;strong .
Etymologies
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From Middle English brath, from Old Norse bráð ("haste"), from Old Norse bráðr ("hasty"). See above.
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From Middle English brath, broth, braith, from Old Norse bráðr ("hasty, sudden"), from Proto-Germanic *brēþaz (“hot, in a hurry, rushed”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrē-, *bʰerē- (“steam, vapour”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (“to seethe, toss about, cook”). Cognate with Icelandic bráður ("quick, hasty, excited"), Swedish bråd ("hasty, sudden, urgent"), Danish bråd ("hasty, sudden"). Related to breath, brew.
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Examples
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Don't hold your brath waiting for the Juliani nomination.
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Angus, with the tears in his eyes; and then in his own emphatic language -- _ach s'eagal leam, aon chuid dhuibhse na dhomhsa nach tig fios na forfhais oiree gu brath_ -- (but great is my fear that neither to you, sir, nor to me shall word of her safety, or message from her at all ever arrive).
Real Ghost Stories William T. Stead
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'S cha chaith 's cha chnamh e gu brath n 'am feasd
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Stevey, and she could ha 'blow in it wi' her brath and beat it wi 'her bonnet to mak' a big blaze coom sune. "
Steve Young George Manville Fenn 1870
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