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Yes. The word brim is a Scrabble US word. The word brim is worth 8 points in Scrabble:

B3R1I1M3

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Yes. The word brim is a Scrabble UK word and has 8 points:

B3R1I1M3

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4-letter words (1 found)

BRIM,

3-letter words (4 found)

MIB,MIR,RIB,RIM,

2-letter words (2 found)

BI,MI,

You can make 7 words from brim according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of brim

brim rbim birm ibrm ribm irbm brmi rbmi bmri mbri rmbi mrbi bimr ibmr bmir mbir imbr mibr rimb irmb rmib mrib imrb mirb

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Definitions and meaning of brim

brim

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bɹɪm/
  • Rhymes: -ɪm

Etymology 1

From Middle English brim, from Old English brim (“surf, flood, wave, sea, ocean, water, sea-edge, shore”), from Proto-Germanic *brimą (“turbulence, surge; surf, sea”), from Proto-Germanic *bremaną (“to roar”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrem- (“to hum, make a noise”). Cognate with Icelandic brim (“sea, surf”), Old English brymm, brym (“sea, waves”), Old English bremman (“to rage, roar”), Dutch brommen (“to hum, buzz”), German brummen (“to hum, drone”), Latin fremō (“roar, growl”, verb), Ancient Greek βρέμω (brémō, “roar, roar like the ocean”, verb).

Noun

brim (plural brims)

  1. (obsolete) The sea; ocean; water; flood.
Derived terms
  • brimsand

Etymology 2

From Middle English brim, brem, brimme (“margin, edge of a river, lake, or sea”), probably from Middle English brim (“sea, ocean, surf, shore”). See above. Cognate with Dutch berm (“bank, riverbank”), Bavarian Bräm (“border, stripe”), German Bräme, Brame (“border, edge”), Danish bræmme (“border, edge, brim”), Swedish bräm (“border, edge”), Icelandic barmur (“edge, verge, brink”). Related to berm.

Noun

brim (plural brims)

  1. An edge or border (originally specifically of the sea or a body of water).
  2. The topmost rim or lip of a container.
  3. A projecting rim, especially of a hat.
Derived terms
  • brimful
  • halo brim
  • to the brim
Translations

Verb

brim (third-person singular simple present brims, present participle brimming, simple past and past participle brimmed)

  1. (intransitive) To be full to overflowing.
    • 2006 New York Times
      It was a hint of life in a place that still brims with memories of death, a reminder that even five years later, the attacks are not so very distant.
  2. (transitive) To fill to the brim, upper edge, or top.
Synonyms
  • (To be full to overflowing): teem
Derived terms
  • brim over
Translations

Etymology 3

Either from breme, or directly from Old English bremman (“to roar, rage”) (though not attested in Middle English).

Verb

brim (third-person singular simple present brims, present participle brimming, simple past and past participle brimmed)

  1. Of pigs: to be in heat, to rut.

Etymology 4

See breme.

Adjective

brim (comparative more brim, superlative most brim)

  1. (obsolete) Fierce; sharp; cold.
    • H.P. Lovecraft (1937) “The Thing on the Doorstep”, in The Rats in the Walls and Other Stories, Richmond: Alma Classics, published 2015, →ISBN, page 339: “There was, I thought, a trace of very profound and very genuine irony in the timbre – not the flashy, meaninglessly jaunty pseudo-irony of the callow “sophisticate,” which Derby had habitually affected, but something brim, basic, pervasive and potentially evil.”

Etymology 5

From brimstone.

Noun

brim (plural brims)

  1. (UK, obsolete, slang) A violent irascible woman.

Anagrams

  • IBMR, IRBM

Indonesian

Etymology

From English brim.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈbrɪm]
  • Hyphenation: brim

Noun

brim (first-person possessive brimku, second-person possessive brimmu, third-person possessive brimnya)

  1. brim: a projecting rim of a hat.

Further reading

  • “brim” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Maltese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /briːm/
  • Rhymes: -iːm

Noun

brim m

  1. verbal noun of baram

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *brimą.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /brim/

Noun

brim n

  1. (poetic) the edge of the sea or a body of water
  2. (poetic) surf; the surface of the sea
  3. (poetic) sea, ocean, water

Declension

Derived terms

  • brimċeald (“cold as the sea”)
  • brimhenġest (“ship”)
  • brimlīþend (“sailor”)
  • brimmann (“sailor”)
  • brimwudu (“ship”)

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *brimą.

Noun

brim n

  1. (poetic) surf; the surface of the sea
  2. (poetic) sea, ocean, water

Declension

References

  • “brim”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

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