英语词汇“brimse”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

brimse

释义

† brimse Obs. exc. dial.
Also 7 brimsee, brimesey, 9 dial. brimps.
[First found in 16th c.: identical with ON. brims (Fritzner); also Ger. bremse:—OHG. primisa (Graff), brimissa (Kluge), perh. f. brem- to roar, in sense of ‘boom, buzz loudly’. In Eng. prob. from Norse, though early evidence is wanting.]
A gadfly; = breeze n.¹
1579Gosson Apol. Sch. Abuse (Arb.) 64 They..lashe out their heeles as they had caught the brimse.1608Topsell Serpents 769 Those great horse-flies or ox-flies and brimsees that in summer season vex cattle.1610J. Guillim Heraldry iii. xxi. 166 The Flie..of some is called the Gad⁓bee, and of others the Dun-fly, Brimesey, or Horse-fly.1611Cotgr., Tahon, a brizze, Brimsee. Oestre Iunonique, a gad-bee, brimsey, brizze.Mod. Kent Provinc., The brimps bite the cows so much they don't know what to do.

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