brill
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 7
- Words With Friends
- 10
- Letters
- 5
Definition of brill
7 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
- A type of flatfish, Scophthalmus rhombus.
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noun
- A type of flatfish, Scophthalmus rhombus.
adj
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(UK, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, slang)Clipping of brilliant; wonderful, amusing; cool.
“That song is totally brill, innit!”
“So what makes a brill baguette? For Mr Paluel-Marmont and Mr de Rovira, a star French stick can usually be identified merely by its appearance.”
name
- A surname.
- A village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England, previously in Aylesbury Vale district (OS grid ref SP6514).
- A hamlet in Constantine parish, south-west Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SW7229).
- A neighbourhood of Elberfeld, Wuppertal, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
- An unincorporated community in the town of Oak Grove, Barron County, Wisconsin, United States.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Possibly from Cornish brilli (“mackerel”), from brithelli, plural of brithel (“mackerel”), from brith (“spotted”), from Proto-Brythonic *briθ.
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