brooch
See also: Brooch
English edit
Etymology edit
Variant of broach.
Pronunciation edit
- (UK) IPA(key): /bɹəʊtʃ/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (US) enPR: brōch, IPA(key): /bɹoʊt͡ʃ/, /bɹuːt͡ʃ/[1][2][3]
- Rhymes: -əʊtʃ, -uːtʃ
- Homophone: broach
Noun edit
brooch (plural brooches)
- A piece of ornamental jewellery having a pin allowing it to be fixed to garments worn on the upper body.
- A painting all of one colour, such as a sepia painting.
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
jewellery with pin
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Verb edit
brooch (third-person singular simple present brooches, present participle brooching, simple past and past participle brooched)
- (transitive) To adorn as with a brooch.
- c. 1606–1607, William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, act 4, scene 15, lines 23–25:
- Not the imperious show / Of the full-fortuned Caesar ever shall / Be brooch'd with me.
References edit
- ^ “brooch”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- ^ On Language; Broaching the Telltale Brooch, William Safire, New York Times
- ^ The Grammarphobia Blog: On brooch, broach, and broccoli
Luxembourgish edit
Etymology edit
From the noun Brooch (“fallow”).
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
brooch (masculine broochen, neuter broocht, comparative méi brooch, superlative am broochsten)
Declension edit
declension of brooch
number and gender | singular | plural | |||
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masculine | feminine | neuter | all genders | ||
predicative | hien ass brooch | si ass brooch | et ass brooch | si si(nn) brooch | |
nominative / accusative |
attributive and/or after determiner | broochen | brooch | broocht | brooch |
independent without determiner | brooches | broocher | |||
dative | after any declined word | broochen | broocher | broochen | broochen |
as first declined word | broochem | broochem |