Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An English name for the gleam exhibited at night by a school of herrings.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Full to the brim; overflowing.
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- verb Present participle of
brim .
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- adjective filled to capacity
Etymologies
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Examples
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Down in a hollow I hear the brimming note of the white-throated sparrow, -- brimming is the only word that expresses it, -- like "a beaker full of the warm South," -- such joy, such overflowing measure of bliss!
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Expression brimming with hostility, she turned from him.
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Expression brimming with hostility, she turned from him.
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RIP, a profound phrase brimming with meaning for those of us who believe
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She recalled brimming with confidence after Obama's historic inaugural address.
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We had asked, just like in the ad, for the pepperoni to be placed on top, but there was no "brimming" here.
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Next came bowls brimming with very salty pumpkin soup.
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It is a scene too brimming with filial trust and desire to be dismissed as cliché, which is why it is played out in myriad households around the world.
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It is a scene too brimming with filial trust and desire to be dismissed as cliché, which is why it is played out in myriad households around the world.
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Here, appropriation and manipulation is all, but I left this big and often bewildering show feeling drained of energy and enthusiasm for a future so lacking in depth and so brimming with adolescent in-jokiness.
frogapplause commented on the word brimming
The gleam exhibited at night by a school of herrings.
April 18, 2011
ruzuzu commented on the word brimming
Beautiful!
April 18, 2011
Gammerstang commented on the word brimming
(verb) - A sow when she takes the boar is said to be a-brimming; and the boar is said to brim her. --William Marshall's Provincialisms of East Yorkshire, 1788
April 22, 2018