broughn.

Forms: Also 1700s–1800s brugh, 1800s dialect bruff.

Origin: Apparently a borrowing from early Scandinavian. Etymon: Norse borg.

Etymology: apparently < Old Norse borg, in sense of ‘wall, enclosure’: compare the German term hof ‘yard, court, area’, applied to the same phenomenon; the comparison being to the outer wall of a feudal castle. Brough , brugh /brʌx/, now in northern English dialect bruff /brʊf/, is the northern form; southern forms are burr n.¹, and burrow n.⁵, in Promp. Parv. burwhe . (The word thus appears in origin identical with broch n.², brough round tower.)

now Scottish and northern.

1. A luminous ring or circle around a shining body, esp. the moon; a halo.

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c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 56 Burwhe, sercle [1499 burrowe], orbiculus.]

1496 (c1410) Dives & Pauper (de Worde) i. xxvii. 64/1 The broughe or cercle about the candell lyght is token of rayne.

1635 D. Person Varieties ii. 62 These Circles by us called broughes, are a world of way remote from the bodies of the sunne and moone.

1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. at Mone A brugh, or hazy circle round the moon is accounted a certain prognostic of rain.

1855 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Yorks. Words 22 Bruff, the halo round the moon, when it shines through a mist or haze.

1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby at Bruff ‘The larger the bruff, the nearer the storm’; or, ‘the bigger the bruff, the nearer the breeze’.

1882 Standard 26 Dec. 7/4 When round the moon there is a brugh The weather will be cold and rough.

2. Curling: see quot. 1857.

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1857 Chambers's Information for People (new ed.) II. 683/1 at Curling Brough—several concentric circles, varying from one to fourteen feet in diameter, drawn round each tee.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

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释义	broughn. Forms: Also 1700s–1800s brugh, 1800s dialect bruff. Origin: Apparently a borrowing from early Scandinavian. Etymon: Norse borg. Etymology: apparently < Old Norse borg, in sense of ‘wall, enclosure’: compare the German term hof ‘yard, court, area’, applied to the same phenomenon; the comparison being to the outer wall of a feudal castle. Brough , brugh /brʌx/, now in northern English dialect bruff /brʊf/, is the northern form; southern forms are burr n.¹, and burrow n.⁵, in Promp. Parv. burwhe . (The word thus appears in origin identical with broch n.², brough round tower.) now Scottish and northern. 1. A luminous ring or circle around a shining body, esp. the moon; a halo. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > luminous appearance > [noun] > aureole circlea1123 hale1440 brough1496 burrow1499 halo1563 shine1581 burr1631 broucha1657 glory1693 aureole1858 Scheiner's halo1983 c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 56 Burwhe, sercle [1499 burrowe], orbiculus.] 1496 (c1410) Dives & Pauper (de Worde) i. xxvii. 64/1 The broughe or cercle about the candell lyght is token of rayne. 1635 D. Person Varieties ii. 62 These Circles by us called broughes, are a world of way remote from the bodies of the sunne and moone. 1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. at Mone A brugh, or hazy circle round the moon is accounted a certain prognostic of rain. 1855 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Yorks. Words 22 Bruff, the halo round the moon, when it shines through a mist or haze. 1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby at Bruff ‘The larger the bruff, the nearer the storm’; or, ‘the bigger the bruff, the nearer the breeze’. 1882 Standard 26 Dec. 7/4 When round the moon there is a brugh The weather will be cold and rough. 2. Curling: see quot. 1857. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > winter sports > curling > [noun] > area of ice > concentric rings drawn round tee brough1857 1857 Chambers's Information for People (new ed.) II. 683/1 at Curling Brough—several concentric circles, varying from one to fourteen feet in diameter, drawn round each tee. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online June 2021). > see also also refers to : brochbroghbroughn.² < n.1496 see also
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