brasser

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English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Cockney rhyming slang brass nail, or its reduced form brass, with the same meaning.

Pronunciation

Noun

brasser (plural brassers)

  1. (Ireland, slang) Prostitute.
    • 1987, Roddy Doyle, The Commitments, Dublin: King Farouk:
      1. The brassers, yeh know wha' I mean. The gee. Is tha' why?
      2. Yeh know the way they're The Byrds an' Bird is another name for a girl, righ'? —Couldn't we be The Brassers? It was a great name.
    • 1991, Roddy Doyle, The Van, Secker & Warburg, →ISBN:
      Don't misunderstand me, compadre, he said. Not just women. All men are brassers as well.
    • 2005, Raymond Hickey, Dublin English: evolution and change, John Benjamins Publishing Company, page 138:
      Among the devices in the word formation morphology of Dublin English the most striking and productive must be the addition of -er /-ər/ (more rarely -ers) to stems...Examples: ...brasser 'prostitute, shameless female'...
    • 2006, Benjamin Black, Christine Falls, Picador, page 174:
      "Oh, and all the brassers knew Dolly Moran," he said. Quirke nodded. Brassers were whores, he assumed, but how? Brass nails, rhyming with tails, or was it something to do with screws?
    • 2011, Tony Black, Paying For It, page 167:
      "Sex workers? Jesus, even the brassers have gone PC," I said to the screen.

References

  1. ^ Christine Falls p. 174, by Benjamin Black. Picador, 2006. →ISBN.
  2. ^ Dublin English: evolution and change p. 138, by Raymond Hickey. John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2005. →ISBN.
  3. ^ The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English p. 257, Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor. Routledge, 2006. →ISBN.

French

Etymology

From Old French bracier, from brace (“malt”), from Gaulish bracem (Pliny) (compare Scottish Gaelic braich, Welsh brag), from Proto-Indo-European *mr̥ke/o, *morko (compare Latin marcēre (“to wither, droop”), North Frisian marig (“tallow”), Lithuanian mer̃kti (“to soak”), Ossetian марг (marg, “poison”)).

Pronunciation

Verb

brasser

  1. to brew (beer)
  2. (culture) to intermingle

Conjugation

Conjugation of brasser (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple brasser
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple brassant
/bʁa.sɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle brassé
/bʁa.se/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses) 		present brasse
/bʁas/ 		brasses
/bʁas/ 		brasse
/bʁas/ 		brassons
/bʁa.sɔ̃/ 		brassez
/bʁa.se/ 		brassent
/bʁas/
imperfect brassais
/bʁa.sɛ/ 		brassais
/bʁa.sɛ/ 		brassait
/bʁa.sɛ/ 		brassions
/bʁa.sjɔ̃/ 		brassiez
/bʁa.sje/ 		brassaient
/bʁa.sɛ/
past historic2 brassai
/bʁa.se/ 		brassas
/bʁa.sa/ 		brassa
/bʁa.sa/ 		brassâmes
/bʁa.sam/ 		brassâtes
/bʁa.sat/ 		brassèrent
/bʁa.sɛʁ/
future brasserai
/bʁa.sʁe/ 		brasseras
/bʁa.sʁa/ 		brassera
/bʁa.sʁa/ 		brasserons
/bʁa.sʁɔ̃/ 		brasserez
/bʁa.sʁe/ 		brasseront
/bʁa.sʁɔ̃/
conditional brasserais
/bʁa.sʁɛ/ 		brasserais
/bʁa.sʁɛ/ 		brasserait
/bʁa.sʁɛ/ 		brasserions
/bʁa.sə.ʁjɔ̃/ 		brasseriez
/bʁa.sə.ʁje/ 		brasseraient
/bʁa.sʁɛ/
(compound
tenses) 		present perfect present indicative of avoir + past participle
pluperfect imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
past anterior2 past historic of avoir + past participle
future perfect future of avoir + past participle
conditional perfect conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive que je (j’) que tu qu’il, qu’elle que nous que vous qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple
tenses) 		present brasse
/bʁas/ 		brasses
/bʁas/ 		brasse
/bʁas/ 		brassions
/bʁa.sjɔ̃/ 		brassiez
/bʁa.sje/ 		brassent
/bʁas/
imperfect2 brassasse
/bʁa.sas/ 		brassasses
/bʁa.sas/ 		brassât
/bʁa.sa/ 		brassassions
/bʁa.sa.sjɔ̃/ 		brassassiez
/bʁa.sa.sje/ 		brassassent
/bʁa.sas/
(compound
tenses) 		past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — brasse
/bʁas/ 		— brassons
/bʁa.sɔ̃/ 		brassez
/bʁa.se/ 		—
compound — simple imperative of avoir + past participle — simple imperative of avoir + past participle simple imperative of avoir + past participle —
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
  • past historic → present perfect
  • past anterior → pluperfect
  • imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive
  • pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive

(Christopher Kendris , Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

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