Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To spread news of; repeat.
- n. Medicine An abnormal sound heard in auscultation.
- n. Archaic A rumor.
- n. Archaic A din; a clamor.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Report; rumor; fame.
- n. A noise; a loud sound; a din.
- n. [Mod. F., pron. brwē.] In pathology, the name given to sounds of various nature, in general abnormal, produced in the body, or evoked in it, by percussion or succussion: used to some extent in English.
- To announce with noise; report; noise abroad.
- To give forth sound; sound.
Wiktionary
- v. to spread, promulgate or disseminate a rumour, news etc.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Report; rumor; fame.
- n. An abnormal sound of several kinds, heard on auscultation.
- v. To report; to noise abroad.
WordNet 3.0
- v. tell or spread rumors
Etymologies
- From Middle English, noise, from Old French, past participle of bruire, to roar, from Vulgar Latin *brūgīre (blend of Latin rūgīre and Vulgar Latin *bragere, to bray, of Celtic origin).
Examples
“These he laid on a table until he had placed his head close to Kent's hearty listening to what he called the bruit -- the rushing of blood through the aneurismal sac.”
“22 Behold, the noise of the bruit is come, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah desolate, and a den of dragons.”
“Exceptions: Your doctor hears a swishing sound, called a bruit, with a stethoscope, or you have had a stroke or mini-stroke. 7.”
“Exceptions: Your doctor hears a swishing sound, called a bruit, with a stethoscope, or you have had a stroke or mini-stroke.7.”
“I am heading to your region soon to get away from the Paris "bruit", and maybe I will run into you and your mom in one of your friendly villages you frequent.”
“Randolph, though an egregious gossip, says of the Four Maries, "they are all good," but Knox writes that "the ballads of that age" did witness to the "bruit" or reputation of these maidens.”
“But the most remarkable feature of this strange assembly amid all the voting and "bruit" is the dramatic silence of the”
“Heaven, I am a better Christian man than thou and thy fellowship; for the 'bruit' goeth shrewdly out, that the most holy Order of the Temple of Zion nurseth not a few heretics within its bosom, and that Sir Brian de Bois-Guilbert is of the number. ”
“I had no mentation the promulgate would spread b bruit about into notable notice such irrefutable reactions in people, but I acumen unquestionably strongly with compliments to self-determination of language and allowing ideas to be unconstrainedly circulated.”
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“Others from the same family: 'Qu'est-ce que c'est qui est orange et fait un bruit comme un perroquet' 'Une carrotte'; 'Qu'est-ce que c'est qui est marron et collant' 'Un baton”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘bruit’.
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Dirty Deeds, Acts & Villainous Arcana
Villains, evildoers, and the wonderful words to describe them.
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
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Snarl words
Please add one purr word (<-- on that list over there, not this one) for every snarl word, so as to maintain equilibrium.
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Words I wish I didn't know
I'll be listing items from my personal collection, but feel free to add whatever you like--I'm sure it will be helpful to know which things I won't want to know.
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Medical terms or linguistic terms?
That's a terrible ablative case. Get me some morpheme, stet!
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super-logos Miss Clarissa Harlowe's reputation was besmirched by having it bruited about that she had an illegitimate child last June, allegedly fathered by that buckra down at the mill.
Lawd sakes, Miss Clarissa, what de world comin' to dese days? Aug 20, 2008
bilby "An attack on Iraq has been bruited about ever since President Bush invoked an axis of evil in his State of the Union address to Congress in January."
- Joyce Appleby and Ellen Carol Dubois, `Congress must reassert authority to declare war', The Record (Bergen County, NJ), 20 September 2002. Aug 20, 2008
yarb ...similar disasters, however little bruited ashore, were by no means unusual in the fishery...
- Melville, Moby-Dick, ch. 41 Jul 24, 2008
sonofgroucho Bruit is also the term applied to the sound heard (with a stethoscope) over a narrowed artery (for example, the carotid). It is caused by turbulent blood flow. Dec 4, 2007
minerva Then who says Miss Clarissa Harlowe is the paragon of virtue? Is virtue itself?
All who know her, and have heard of her, it will be answered.
Common bruit!--- Is virtue to be established by common bruit only?...
Lovelace to Belford, Clarissa by Samuel Richardson Dec 4, 2007
minerva Also a noun (archaic). Dec 4, 2007
chained_bear I always see this only in the past tense, e.g. "He had it bruited about that the child was illegitimate." Nov 11, 2007