† brimsen.

Forms: Also 1600s brimsee, brimesey, 1800s dialect brimps.

Origin: Probably a borrowing from early Scandinavian.

Etymology: First found in 16th cent.: identical with Old Norse brims (Fritzner); also German bremse < Old High German primisa (Graff), brimissa (Kluge), perhaps < brem- to roar, in sense of ‘boom, buzz loudly’. In English probably < Norse, though early evidence is wanting.

Obsolete exc. dialect.

A gadfly; = breeze n.¹

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > suborder Brachycera > family Tabanidae > member of genus Tabanus (gadfly or horse-fly)

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1579 S. Gosson Apol. Schoole of Abuse in Ephemerides Phialo f. 81^v They..lashe out their heeles as they had caught the brimse.

1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 247 Those great horse-flyes or oxe-flyes and Brimsees, that in Sommer-season vexe cattle.

1610 J. Guillim Display of Heraldrie iii. xxi. 166 This Flie..of some is called the Gad-bee, and of others the Dun-fly, Brimesey, or Horse-fly.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Tahon, a brizze, Brimsee. Oestre Iunonique, a gad-bee, brimsey, brizze.

1888 N.E.D. at Brimse Mod. Kent Provinc., The brimps bite the cows so much they don't know what to do.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	brimse
释义	† brimsen. Forms: Also 1600s brimsee, brimesey, 1800s dialect brimps. Origin: Probably a borrowing from early Scandinavian. Etymology: First found in 16th cent.: identical with Old Norse brims (Fritzner); also German bremse < Old High German primisa (Graff), brimissa (Kluge), perhaps < brem- to roar, in sense of ‘boom, buzz loudly’. In English probably < Norse, though early evidence is wanting. Obsolete exc. dialect. A gadfly; = breeze n.¹ ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > suborder Brachycera > family Tabanidae > member of genus Tabanus (gadfly or horse-fly) breezea800 stoutc1000 horsefly1382 gad-bee1510 gadfly1569 brimse1579 wag-leg1585 breeze-fly1587 breame1589 beast-fly1658 burrel-fly1658 whame1658 gad-breeze1665 bree1678 garabee1692 gad1830 thunderbug1837 ox-warble1840 March fly1852 1579 S. Gosson Apol. Schoole of Abuse in Ephemerides Phialo f. 81^v They..lashe out their heeles as they had caught the brimse. 1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 247 Those great horse-flyes or oxe-flyes and Brimsees, that in Sommer-season vexe cattle. 1610 J. Guillim Display of Heraldrie iii. xxi. 166 This Flie..of some is called the Gad-bee, and of others the Dun-fly, Brimesey, or Horse-fly. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Tahon, a brizze, Brimsee. Oestre Iunonique, a gad-bee, brimsey, brizze. 1888 N.E.D. at Brimse Mod. Kent Provinc., The brimps bite the cows so much they don't know what to do. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1579
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