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▪ I. brimmer, n.|ˈbrɪmə(r)|
[f. brim v.3 + -er1.]
1. A thing that fills to the brim; a swelling wave.
1652Benlowes Theoph. i. xviii, Swell us a lustie Brimmer..So vast, that none may spie the coast.
2. A brimming cup or goblet.
1663Cowley Cutter Coleman St. v. vi, Boy! Fill a Brimmer, Nay fuller yet, yet a little fuller. 1697Dryden Virg. (1806) II. 253 Nor ceas'd to draw, Till he the bottom of the brimmer saw. 1728Gay Begg. Op. iii. xii, Not one so sure can bring Relief As his best Friend, a Brimmer. 1826Scott Woodst. iv. (1846) 63 Accustomed to feed the flame of their loyalty with copious brimmers.
3. A hat with a brim. Cf. bowler. Now chiefly local; spec. a straw hat.
Cf. Local rhyme (Birmingham). Straw brimmer, Ate the donkey's dinner.
a1652Brome Songs (N.) Now takes his brimmer off. 1670Eachard Cont. Clergy 136 Twisting the ends of his Girdle, and asking him the price of his Brimmer. 1888Lowsley Gloss. Berks. Words, Brimmer, a hat. 1893Dartnell & Goddard Gloss. Words Wilts., Brimmer, a broad-brimmed hat. 1902Pall Mall Gaz. 14 Apr. 2/3 The early brimmer marked a conspicuously daring spirit here and there against the crowd of silk hats.
▪ II. brimmer, v.|ˈbrɪmə(r)|
[f. prec.]
trans. and absol. To fill and drink (brimmers of wine). Hence ˈbrimmered ppl. a.
1838Fraser's Mag. XVII. 313 Is he not seen at the Athenæum, dinnering and brimmering? 1831Hogg in Fraser's Mag. IV. 380 The brimmer'd glass in every hand. |