breest

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English brest, from Old English brēost, from Proto-West Germanic *breust, from Proto-Germanic *breustą, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrews- (“to swell”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [brist]
(Mid Northern Scots) IPA^(key): [briʃt]

Noun

breest (plural breests)

(anatomy) breast
perpendicular face cut in a moss
step or layer in a manure heap
the desk board of a pew
the front or projecting part of anything
the cobbled slipway forming the front of a harbour

Derived terms

abreest (“abreast, side by side”)
breestbane (“breastbone”)
breestie (“small breast”)

Verb

breest (third-person singular simple present breests, present participle breestin, simple past breestit, past participle breestit)

to spring up or forward
to mount a horse by gripping the mane and wriggling over

Derived terms

breestit (“sprang up with forward motion”)