/bɹiːm/
OriginFrom Middle English brem, breme, from Old English brēme (“famous, glorious, noble”), from Proto-West Germanic *brōmi, from Proto-Germanic *brōmiz (“famous”). Cognate with Latin fremō (“I murmur; I roar”), Ancient Greek βρέμω (brémō, “I roar”), Polish brzmieć (“to be heard”).
- Scotland, poeticOf the sea, wind, etc.: fierce; raging; stormy, tempestuous.
“Let me, ah! lette me in your folds ye lock, / Ere the breme winter breede you greater griefe.”
“The same to him glad Summer or the Winter breme.”
- archaicKeen, sharp, alert.
Formsbrim(alternative)