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English
Etymology
From Auregnais Norman vraic (“seaweed”), from Germanic. Doublet of wrack.
Pronunciation
Noun
vraic (uncountable)
- (Channel Islands) Seaweed gathered for use as a fertilizer or fuel.
1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 45:There was some sort of big pans, I didn't know what they was for; but Jim said once upon a time they was used to boil vraic to make iodine.
Translations
seaweed gathered for use as a fertilizer or fuel
Anagrams
Norman
Etymology
From a Germanic source; compare English wrack, Dutch wrak, German Wrack, ultimately related to Proto-Germanic *wrekaną (“to drive out”).
Noun
vraic m (uncountable)
- (Guernsey) seaweed, vraic
1903, Edgar MacCulloch, “Proverbs, Weather Sayings, etc.”, in Guernsey Folk Lore, page 537:Pouit de vraic, pouit de haugard.- No seaweed, no corn ricks.