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brr en · INTJ

Pronunciation

  • /bɝ/ (colloquial)
  • [ʙ̩ː] naturally
  • (UK) audio

Meanings

  1. Used to express being cold, to show shivering.
    • 'Brrrrr,' said Lieutenant Dubosc, realizing to the full how cold he was. 1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 1, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 7:
    • The teeth chattered faster, stopped, and began again twice before the man could master his shiver sufficiently to say, "Ju-ju-st in ti-ti-me....Brrrr." 1900, Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim, page x. 83:
  2. An expression of disgust or aversion, as if shuddering.
    • Brrr. Even the thought of going underground made Old Bailey shudder. 1996, Neil Gaiman, chapter 8, in Neverwhere, London: Headline Review, published 2005:
  3. The ringing sound of a telephone or an alarm bell.
    • Brr-brr, brr-brr. The phone rang insistently.
    • “As we were talking at the front gate I heard a noise. It was a ‘Brrrrrr, Brrrrrr’ just like it sounds to you there as I make the noise.” 1965, James Holledge, Flying Saucers Over Australia, Sydney: Horwitz Publications, page 57:

Forms

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brrr alternative lexicographic
br alternative lexicographic

Translations (23)

gd fuiteag (expression to show shivering) · nl brr (expression to show shivering) · wa souxh (expression to show shivering) · fr brrr (expression to show shivering) · de brr (expression to show shivering) · pl pru (expression to show shivering) · pl brr (expression to show shivering) · it brr (expression to show shivering) · gd eiteagaidh (expression to show shivering) · sv brr (expression to show shivering) · el μπρρ (expression to show shivering) · sga fuit (expression to show shivering) · gd foiteagaidh (expression to show shivering) · gd fuiteagaidh (expression to show shivering) · non hutututu (expression to show shivering) · gd dudaigidh (expression to show shivering) · fi hrr (expression to show shivering) · cs brr (expression to show shivering) · non atatata (expression to show shivering) · ru бр-р (expression to show shivering) · gd foiteag (expression to show shivering) · sv urr (expression to show shivering) · gd diteag (expression to show shivering)