brùideil

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From brùid (“brute”) +‎ -eil. Compare Irish brúidiúil.

Adjective

brùideil

1. barbarous, beastly, bestial, brutal, brutish, violent, cruel

Related terms

• brùidealachd (“barbarism, brutality, violence”)

References

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “brùideil”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “brúitemail”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language