brooch

brooch

See also: Brooch

English

Etymology

Variant of broach.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /bɹəʊtʃ/

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• (US) enPR: brōch, IPA^(key): /bɹoʊt͡ʃ/, /bɹuːt͡ʃ/[1][2][3]
• Rhymes: -əʊtʃ, -uːtʃ
• Homophone: broach

Noun

brooch (plural brooches)

1. A piece of ornamental jewellery having a pin allowing it to be fixed to garments worn on the upper body.

   Synonym: breastpin

   Hypernym: pin

2. A painting all of one colour, such as a sepia painting.

Derived terms

• Luckenbooth brooch

Translations

jewellery with pin

Afrikaans: borsspeld Albanian: lulëse Arabic: بْرُوش‎ m (brūš), بْرُوش‎ m (broš) Armenian: բրոշ (hy) (broš), կրծքազարդ (hy) (krckʿazard), զարդասեղ (hy) (zardaseł) Belarusian: бро́шка f (bróška) Bulgarian: бро́шка (bg) f (bróška) Chinese: Mandarin: 胸針／胸针 (zh) (xiōngzhēn), 別針／别针 (zh) (biézhēn), (on a tie) 領針／领针 (zh) (lǐngzhēn) Crimean Tatar: tüyreviç Czech: brož f, spona f, sponka f Danish: broche c Dutch: broche (nl) f, speldje (nl) n Esperanto: broĉo Faroese: bringuprýði n, brossja f Finnish: rintaneula (fi) French: broche (fr) f Galician: broche m Georgian: ბროში (broši) German: Brosche (de) f Greek: πόρπη (el) f (pórpi) Ancient: πόρπη f (pórpē) Hungarian: bross (hu), melltű (hu), brosstű Ido: brocho (io) Italian: spilla (it) f Japanese: ブローチ (burōchi) Kazakh: танамоншақ (tanamonşaq) Korean: 브로치 (beurochi) Latin: fībula f Luxembourgish: Brosch f Macedonian: брош m (broš), брошка f (broška) Malay: kerongsang Maori: pine, toromoka Norwegian: brosje Occitan: bròca f Polish: broszka (pl) f, brosza (pl) f Portuguese: broche (pt) m Russian: бро́шка (ru) f (bróška), брошь (ru) f (brošʹ) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: брош m Roman: broš (sh) m Slovak: spona f, brošňa f Slovene: broška (sl) f Spanish: broche (es) m Swedish: brosch (sv) Tagalog: brotse Thai: เข็มกลัด (kěm-glàt) Turkish: broş (tr) Ukrainian: бро́шка (uk) f (bróška) Vietnamese: trâm (vi), trâm gài đầu, thoa (vi)

Verb

brooch (third-person singular simple present brooches, present participle brooching, simple past and past participle brooched)

1. (transitive) To adorn as with a brooch.
   • c. 1606–1607, Shakespeare, William, 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

1. “brooch”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
2. On Language; Broaching the Telltale Brooch, William Safire, New York Times
3. The Grammarphobia Blog: On brooch, broach, and broccoli

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Luxembourgish

Etymology

From the noun Brooch (“fallow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bʀoːχ/

Adjective

brooch (masculine broochen, neuter broocht, comparative méi brooch, superlative am broochsten)

1. fallow

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

Derived terms

• broochleeën
• broochleien