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brimmer en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈbɹɪmə/ (UK)

Etymology

From brim + -er.

Meanings

1. A cup brimming over with liquid.
   • No wonder, then, that they made a straight wake for the whale's mouth--the bar--when the wrinkled little old Jonah, there officiating, soon poured them out brimmers all round. 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick:
2. (dialectal) A hat with a brim, especially a straw hat.
   • Bown has concocted exotic costumes out of a dash of this and that; her straw brimmers and other decorative hats have attracted positive notice from amused music critics. 1996, Leslie Gourse, Madame Jazz: Contemporary Women Instrumentalists, page 16:

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