breest
Scots
Etymology
From Old English brēost, from Proto-Germanic *breustą, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrews- (“to swell”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [brist]
- (Mid Northern Scots) IPA(key): [briʃt]
Noun
breest (plural breests)
- (anatomy) breast
- perpendicular face cut in a moss
- step or layer in a manure heap
- the desk board of a pew
- the front or projecting part of anything
- the cobbled slipway forming the front of a harbour
Derived terms
- abreest (“abreast, side by side”)
- breestbane (“breastbone”)
- breestie (“small breast”)
Verb
breest (third-person singular present breests, present participle breestin, past breestit, past participle breestit)
- to spring up or forward
- to mount a horse by gripping the mane and wriggling over
Derived terms
- breestit (“sprang up with forward motion”)