abrim en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /əˈbɹɪm/
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Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Hellenic *ə- Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-)der. English a- English brim English abrim From a- + brim.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Brimming, full to the brim.
[…] we began taking turns stirring an enormous copper kettle abrim with New England clam chowder.
2014, James K. Morrow, chapter 2, in The Madonna and the Starship, San Francisco: Tachyon, page 48:the stand-place / Of carriages a-brim with Florence Beauties
1860, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “The Dance”, in Poems before Congress,, London: Chapman and Hall, page 21:Dyke and drain were everywhere abrim and here and there the water stood in the soaked fields as though they needed but little more to sink back into their ancient desolation of mere and fen.
1934, Dorothy L. Sayers, The Nine Tailors, New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, page 263:
Translations (5)
nl afgeladen (brimming) · nl overlopend (brimming) · nl stampvol (brimming) · nl boordevol (brimming) · nl bomvol (brimming)