brim
n. countablen. the top edge of a container like a cup or bowl, or the wide part of a hat that shades your face.
n. the upper edge or lip of a cup, bowl, or similar vessel; also refers to the projecting rim of a hat.
She filled the glass to the brim with water.
The wide brim of his straw hat protected his neck from the harsh afternoon sun while he worked in the garden.
Rainwater collected in the rusted barrel until it reached the brim, eventually spilling over to create a muddy pool on the workshop floor.
The noun is derived from Middle English brem, brim, brimme (“bank, edge, or margin of a lake or river; shore of a sea; brink; rim”); from Old English brim (“sea, surf, or the edge of the sea or a body of water”), from Proto-Germanic brimą (“turbulence, surge; surf, sea”), from Proto-Germanic bremaną (“to roar”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrem- (“to hum, make a noise”). The verb is derived from the noun. cognates * Bavarian Bräm (“border, stripe”) * Danish bræmme (“border, edge, brim”) * German Bräme, Brame (“border, edge”) * Swedish bräm (“border, edge”) * Icelandic barmur (“edge, verge, brink”)
A variant of bream.
The verb is derived from Middle English brimmen (“of pigs: to be in heat or rut; to breed; to bear fruit”), either: modified from brem, breme (“of animals: ferocious, savage; of fire, the sea, a storm, etc.: raging, severe, tempestuous; glorious, splendid; etc.”, adjective) (whence modern English breme (“(obsolete) fierce, stormy, tempestuous”)), from Old English brēme (“(poetic) glorious; famous, renowned”), from Proto-West Germanic brōmi, from Proto-Germanic *brōmiz (“famous”); or directly from Old English bremman (“to rage; to roar”) (though not attested in Middle English), from Proto-Germanic bramjaną, *bremaną (“to roar”); both from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrem- (“to make noise”). The noun is derived from Middle English brim, from the verb: see above.
A variant of breme.
Clipping of brimstone (“sulphur; (figurative) a domineering, scolding woman”).
Often used in the prepositional phrase 'to the brim' to indicate a container is completely full.