abrim

abrim

English

Etymology

a- +‎ brim

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈbɹɪm/

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• Rhymes: -ɪm

Adjective

abrim (not comparable)

1. Brimming, full to the brim. [First attested in the late 19^th century.][1]
   • 1860, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “The Dance” in Poems before Congress, London: Chapman and Hall, p. 21,

     the stand-place / Of carriages a-brim with Florence Beauties

   • 1934, Dorothy L. Sayers, The Nine Tailors, New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, p. 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, The Madonna and the Starship, San Francisco: Tachyon, Chapter 2, p. 48,

     […] we began taking turns stirring an enormous copper kettle abrim with New England clam chowder.

Translations

brimming

Dutch: boordevol (nl), stampvol (nl), bomvol (nl), overlopend (nl) (van), afgeladen (nl) (met)

Adverb

abrim (not comparable)

1. Brimming, full to the brim. [First attested in the late 19^th century.][1]

References

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

• Birma, MBARI, brami, imbar, mbari, mbira