brooch
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See also: Brooch
English
Etymology
Variant of broach.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /bɹəʊtʃ/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (US) enPR: brōch, IPA(key): /bɹoʊt͡ʃ/, /bɹuːt͡ʃ/
- Rhymes: -əʊtʃ, -uːtʃ
- Homophone: broach
Noun
brooch (plural brooches)
- A piece of ornamental jewellery having a pin allowing it to be fixed to garments worn on the upper body.
- A painting all of one colour, such as a sepia painting.
Derived terms
Translations
jewellery with pin
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Verb
brooch (third-person singular simple present brooches, present participle brooching, simple past and past participle brooched)
- (transitive) To adorn as with a brooch.
- c. 1606–1607, William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, act 4, scene 15, lines 23–25:
- Not the imperious show / Of the full-fortuned Caesar ever shall / Be brooch'd with me.
References
- ^ “brooch”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- ^ On Language; Broaching the Telltale Brooch, William Safire, New York Times
- ^ The Grammarphobia Blog: On brooch, broach, and broccoli
Luxembourgish
Etymology
From the noun Brooch (“fallow”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
brooch (masculine broochen, neuter broocht, comparative méi brooch, superlative am broochsten)
Declension
declension of brooch
| number and gender | singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | all genders | ||
| predicative | hien ass brooch | si ass brooch | et ass brooch | si si(nn) brooch | |
| nominative / accusative |
attributive and/or after determiner | broochen | brooch | broocht | brooch |
| independent without determiner | brooches | broocher | |||
| dative | after any declined word | broochen | broocher | broochen | broochen |
| as first declined word | broochem | broochem | |||