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English
Etymology
From a- + brim.
Pronunciation
Adjective
abrim (not comparable)
- Brimming, full to the brim. [1]
1860, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “The Dance”, in Poems before Congress,, London: Chapman and Hall, page 21:the stand-place / Of carriages a-brim with Florence Beauties
1934, Dorothy L. Sayers, The Nine Tailors, New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, page 263: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.
2014, James K. Morrow, chapter 2, in The Madonna and the Starship, San Francisco: Tachyon, page 48:[…] we began taking turns stirring an enormous copper kettle abrim with New England clam chowder.
Translations
Adverb
abrim (not comparable)
- Brimming, full to the brim. [1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abrim”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 8.
Anagrams
Galician
Verb
abrim
- (reintegrationist norm) first-person singular preterite indicative of abrir