brear

From French brayer, from Old French broier (“to tar, pitch”), from Old Norse bræða (“to melt, make oil, tar, pitch”), from bráð (“tar, pitch”). Related to English brew.

• IPA^(key):

brear (first-person singular present breo, first-person singular preterite breei, past participle breado)
brear (first-person singular present breio, first-person singular preterite breei, past participle breado, reintegrationist norm)

1. (transitive) to tar
2. (transitive) to beat up

• brea

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “brear”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “brear”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “brear”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “brear”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

brear m

1. indefinite plural of bre

Borrowed from French brayer, from Old French broier (“to tar, pitch”), from Old Norse bræða (“to melt, make oil, tar, pitch”), from bráð (“tar, pitch”). Related to brew.

• IPA^(key): /bɾeˈaɾ/
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: bre‧ar

brear (first-person singular present breo, first-person singular preterite breé, past participle breado)

1. (obsolete, rare) to dip in tar (see embrear)
2. (by extension) to abuse, to mistreat, to mock

• “brear”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
• Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “brea”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume I (A–Ca), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 657