单词 | brut |
释义 | brutn. A chronicle of British history from the mythical Brutus downward. (The Middle English instance may refer to Wace, Layamon, or some Welsh Brut.) ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > written record > historical record or chronicle > [noun] > specific chronicle brutc1450 polychronicon1570 V.C.H.1931 c1450 Arth. & Merl. (Mätz.) 2740 So ich in the brout yfinde. 1845 Athenæum 4 Jan. 9 A Greek version of our brute-epos. 1847 J. Yeowell Chron. Anc. Brit. Church Pref. 7 The only other remains still extant of Ancient Welsh literature consist of Bruts, or Chronicles. 1883 H. M. Kennedy tr. B. ten Brink Early Eng. Lit. 188 A history of those who first had possession of England ‘after the flood’ or as a Norman would, perhaps, even then have called it, a Brut. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021). brutadj. Of wines: unsweetened. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > sourness or acidity > [adjective] sourc1000 sourish1398 acetosea1400 eagerc1405 acetous?a1425 crabbed1565 sharpish1589 unsugared1592 flatten1594 Amerine1601 acetosous1605 acerba1616 acid1626 acidulous1674 salso-acid1697 acescent1707 sugarless1785 acidulent1800 blink1883 brut1891 the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > wine > qualities or characteristics of wine > [adjective] > not sweetened uncuted1615 dry1699 sec1863 brut1891 bone-dry1935 off-dry1950 1891 Longman's Mag. Aug. 417 An especial brand of brut champagne. 1891 Longman's Mag. Aug. 417 Brut wines. 1896 Pall Mall Mag. Mar. 399 Tell my man to bring me a quail, broiled, and a pint of Piper Heidsieck, brut. 1932 P. G. Wodehouse Louder & Funnier 12 Washing it down with a brut champagne of a vintage year. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2021). † brutv. Obsolete. 1. intransitive. To browse. Hence brutting n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eating by animals > feed (of animals) [verb (intransitive)] > browse browse1542 brut1674 1577 [implied in: B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iii. f. 131v You may geue them the toppes of Olyue trees, Lentylls, or any tender brutinges, or branches of Uines. (at brutting n.)]. 1674 J. Ray S. & E. Countrey Words in Coll. Eng. Words 60 To brutte, to browse. Suss. Dial. 1706 J. Evelyn Acetaria in Sylva (ed. 4) 173 Marking what the Goats so greedily brutted upon. 2. transitive. dialect. To break off (young shoots). ΚΠ 1888 N.E.D. at Brut Mod. Kent. Dial., Your potatoes don't come up because the young shoots were brutted off. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < |
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