PIE word
*bʰréh₂tēr
Clipping of brother originating in African-American Vernacular English. Predates, but perhaps influenced, other slang clippings spelled with -h.
This is a phonetic clipping: /ˈbɹʌðɚ/ → /bɹʌ/. Contrast bro, which is a clipping of the spelling of brother rather than the pronunciation.
Meanings
(slang) Expressing amazement or shock.
You're moving to Greenland? Bruh!
(slang) Expressing a feeling that something is stupid, inappropriate, useless or even weird to say, think or do.
Person 1: I think the word partisan derives from how they parted their hair.
Person 2: Bruh.
Person 1: I poured canola oil into my car engine!
Person 2: Bruh.
(slang) Expressing disappointment.
Person 1: Your favorite show got cancelled!
Person 2: Bruh.
Person 1: I just ate your dinner.
Person 2: Seriously, bruh.
PIE word
*bʰréh₂tēr
Clipping of brother originating in African-American Vernacular English. Predates, but perhaps influenced, other slang clippings spelled with -h.
This is a phonetic clipping: /ˈbɹʌðɚ/ → /bɹʌ/. Contrast bro, which is a clipping of the spelling of brother rather than the pronunciation.
Meanings
(alt-of, alternative, slang) Alternative form of bro (“male comrade or friend”).
Abra-abracadabra / (And for my last trick) I'm 'bout to reach in my bag, bruh / Abra-abracadabra / (And for my last trick, poof) Just like that and I'm back, bruh 2024, Eminem, “Houdini”, in The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce):
[…] in adolescence, and still more in youth, it is no less certain that the bruh is both good-natured and intelligent. 1838, James Rennie, The Natural History of Monkeys, Opossums and Lemurs: