brinkn.

Brit.

/brɪŋk/, U.S.

/brɪŋk/

Forms: Middle English brenk, Middle English–1500s brynke, Middle English–1500s brynke, Middle English–1600s brinke, 1500s brinck, Middle English– brink.

Origin: Probably a borrowing from early Scandinavian.

Etymology: Middle English brink (brenk ), not known in Old English; corresponding to Middle Dutch brinc (Dutch brink ), Middle Low German brink ‘edge of a field, grass-land, side of a hill, hill’ (whence modern German brink ‘green hill, grass-land’), Swedish brink ‘descent of a hill’, Danish brink ‘steepness, precipice, declivity’, all masculine, cognate with Old Norse brekka (feminine) ( < brinkâ ) ‘slope, hillside, hill’. The English word was probably < Scandinavian. In sense brink formerly ran parallel with brim n.²

1. The edge, margin, or border of a steep place, such as one might fall over, e.g. the ‘brink’ of a precipice, chasm, pit, ditch, grave. on the brink of the grave (figurative): near death. [This is the specific current sense, which now also affects the use of sense 2, and entirely colours the figurative use in sense 5; but it is doubtful whether the first two quotations do not rather belong to sense 2.]

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > [noun] > of something steep

brinka1300

edgec1400

pit-brink1571

overgoing1634

the world > life > death > dead person or the dead > [adjective] > dying

deadlyc893

swelting?a1400

dyingc1450

at (the) utterance1525

in (the, his) extremes1551

parting1562

Acherontic1597

ending1600

departing1603

on one's last legs1614

expiring1635

mortifying1649

morient1679

upon one's last stretch1680

gasping1681

à la mort1700

moribund1721

outward-bound1809

terminal1854

on the brink of the grave1872

defunctive1929

a1300 Ancr. R. 242 Þe horse þet is scheouh, and blencheð uor one scheadewe upo þe heie brugge, and falleð adun into þe watere of þe heie brugge [MS. Titus D. xviii. brinke].

c1386 G. Chaucer Merch. T. 157 I am hoor and old, And almost at [v.r. on] my pittes brinke.

?a1400 Chester Pl. 68 Your owine childe for to spill Upon this hilles brinke?

c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) l. 384 Vche a dale so depe þat demmed at þe brynkez.

c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Franklin's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 150 And caste hir eyen downward fro the Brynke [v.r. brinke, brenke].

1594 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus ii. iii. 241 Of this deepe pit..I haue no strength to plucke thee to the brinck .

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ii. 918 The warie fiend Stood on the brink of Hell and look'd a while.

1709 G. Berkeley Ess. New Theory of Vision §148. 173 He shall come to the Brink of a Precipice.

1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. xxxix. 355 Upon the brink of the cleanly-separated fissures.

1872 J. Morley Voltaire iv. 198 Tottering on the brink of the grave.

1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) 170 The church..is now on the very brink of the cliff.

2. The edge of the land bordering a piece of water, as a river, lake, the sea: formerly = ‘bank, shore, brim’; now esp. when this rises abruptly from the water: thus running into sense 1.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > [noun]

staithec893

cliffeOE

overeOE

wartha1000

strandc1000

brimc1275

brinka1300

rivagec1330

water bankc1384

cleevea1387

watersidea1387

clifta1398

rival?a1400

shorec1400

water breach1495

common shorea1568

verge1606

praia1682

riva1819

splash zone1933

a1300 K. Horn 141 Schup, bi þe se flode..Bi þe se brinke.

a1300 Cursor Mundi 1766 Þe burnes ouer þe brink [Fairf. brenk] it brast.

1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Gen. xli. 3 Thei weren fedde in the brenke of the flood [1611 vpon the brinke of the riuer].

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. Rolls Ser. 65 By þe see brynkes [L. juxta marium margines].

1480 W. Caxton Descr. Brit. 17 A ryall cite vpon the brinke of twede.

1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 58/2 They sawe thegypcyens lyeng deed upon the brynkes of the see.

1553 R. Eden in tr. S. Münster Treat. Newe India Pref. sig. aavj Azion Gaber, by the brinke of the redde sea.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 97 Reeds defend the winding Waters Brink .

1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) II. 36 Their habitations on the brink, or in the neighborhood of some lake.

1849 G. Grote Hist. Greece VI. ii. lii. 469 On the brink of the sea.

1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. 630 They marched..to the brink of the Boyne.

†3.

a. The brim of a vessel; = brim n.² 4. Obsolete or dialect.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > [noun] > rim

brink1382

berda1425

edgea1450

lip1592

beaded1917

bead rim1936

1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) 2 Chron. iv. 2 He maad..a ȝoten se of tenn cubitis fro brynke vnto brynk.

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 52 Brynke of a wesselle.

a1500 Songs & Carols (1847) 56 Fyll the cope by the brynk.

?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. li Thou must spare at the brinke, & nat at the bottom.

1542 A. Borde Compend. Regyment Helth xii. sig. G.iii^v Fat dothe swymme aboue in the brynkes of the stomacke.

1598 M. Drayton Englands Heroicall Epist. (new ed.) f. 89 A bowle of Nectar fild vnto the brincke.

1709 J. Swift Baucis & Philemon 2 Fill'd a large Jugg up to the Brink.

b. The brim of a hat. dialect.

ΚΠ

1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel II. 68 With weather-beaten hat of rusty brown, Stranger to brinks, and often to a crown.

†4.

a. gen. A margin, border, edge. Obsolete or archaic.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > [noun]

brerdc1000

hemc1200

barmc1340

cantc1375

margina1382

boardc1400

borderc1400

brinkc1420

edgea1450

verge1459

brim1525

rind1530

margent1538

abuttal1545

marge1551

skirt1566

lip1592

skirt1598

limb1704

phylactery1715

rim1745

rand1829

c1420 Pallad. on Husb. i. 813 In places wete or moist make evry brynke Two foote in heght.

a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Exod. xxv. 24 Make to it a goldun brynke.

c1432–50 tr. Higden (1865) I. 309 In the brynkes of the lesse Asia.

1508 Balade against Tymes Prudence and policy are banyst our al brinkis.

a1535 T. More Wks. (1557) 81 The ytch of a sore leg, whan thou clawest about the brinkes.

1562 W. Bullein Dial. Sorenes f. 21^v, in Bulwarke of Defence The brinkes of the wounde, must be oiled with Rosed omphacine.

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 490 His eares erected vpright, as the eares of a catte..the farthest brinkes or edges, and also his latter may be bended on the other side.

1724 T. Hearne Pref. R. Glouc. §25. 81 In one part of this MS. at the very bottom, just on the Brink of a Page.

a1824 Ld. Byron Childe Harold i, in Wks. (1837) 14/2 All these are coop'd within one Quarto's brink.

†b. figurative. archaic.

ΚΠ

1659 J. Rushworth Hist. Coll. 688 Now we are but upon the brink and skirts of the Cause.

1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound ii. v. 90 On the brink of the night and the morning.

a. figurative. The very verge of some state, time, event, or action: now esp. in the phrases on, to, from the brink of, a discovery, ruin, destruction, death, eternity, anarchy, revolution, absurdity, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > relationship > similarity > [noun] > approximation > edge, verge, or brink

brink?a1400

brim1549

?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) (1996) ii. l. 2977 Scho dred þer assaute, hunger was at þe brynk.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Timon of Athens (1623) v. ii. 41 You..Surprize me to the very brinke of teares.

1671 A. Marvell Let. 6 Apr. in Poems & Lett. (1971) II. 138 It is impossible we should rise before the very brinke of Easter.

a1677 I. Barrow Wks. (1686) III. 191 Old men..visibly stand upon the brink of eternity.

1720 J. Swift Proposal Use Irish Manuf. 6 To save them from the brink of Ruin.

1722 D. Defoe Moll Flanders 335 I was at the very brink of Destruction.

1758 S. Johnson Idler 19 Aug. 153 [They] follow them to the brink of absurdity.

1818 M. W. Shelley Frankenstein I. iii. 90 Sometimes, on the very brink of certainty, I failed.

1876 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest V. xxiv. 367 As conqueror, he brought us to the brink of feudal anarchy; as despot, he saved us from passing the brink.

1884 Graphic 158/3 The secret..on the brink of discovery.

b. with infinitive (obsolete) or gerund: On the very point of. (Now of something momentous or perilous.)

ΚΠ

1702 T. Smith in Pepys' Diary VI. 240 Upon the brink to complete fourscore.

1720 J. Ozell et al. tr. R. A. de Vertot Hist. Revol. Rom. Republic I. iv. 228 You were upon the Brink of falling a Prey to our Enemies.

1788 Ld. Sheffield in Corr. Ld. Auckland II. 223 Trevor was on the brink of going to Petersburg.

1808 Salmagundi 25 Jan. xx. 424 I was on the very brink of treating you with a full broadside.

1865 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend I. ii. xvi. 319 She is on the brink of being sold into wretchedness for life.

c. spec. the verge of war.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > war > [noun] > verge of war

verge1772

brink1956

1840 J. S. Mill Let. 30 Dec. in Wks. (1963) XIII. 459 They had been brought to the brink of a war.]

1956 Life 16 Jan. 78 Says Dulles ‘..Of course we were brought to the verge of war... If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost... We walked to the brink and we looked it in the face.’

Compounds

† brink-full n. Obsolete full to the brink, brimfull.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > place > presence > fact of taking up space > [adjective] > full > full to the brim

brerd-fullc1000

bret-fullc1200

staff-fulla1400

chock-fullc1440

brimful1530

brink-full1553

top-full1553

brim-charged1582

bankfullc1600

crowned1603

full-brimmed1614

brimmed1624

teemful1673

brimming1697

stock-full1782

throat-fulla1800

jam-full1835

cram-full1837

stodge-full1847

chockc1850

top-filled1860

1553 tr. S. Gardiner De Vera Obediencia: Oration G vij With an emptie and free minde and not already brynke full.

brinkless adj. without any brink or border.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > existence > state or condition > infiniteness > [adjective]

unbegunc1000

uncircumscriptc1374

endless138.

finitea1400

measurelessc1400

infinite1413

ginningless?1440

immensec1450

unlimitedc1475

infinal?1504

interminate1533

termlessa1542

brinkless1567

without limit1572

uncompassed1577

limitlessa1586

beginningless1587

untermedc1595

boundless1599

illimitate1602

illimited1602

unbeginning1605

incomprehense1606

inconjectable1609

uncircumscribed1610

borderless1611

confinelessa1616

finelessa1616

unconfined1629

uninchoative1649

indefinite1664

incircumscript1677

imprincipiate1683

ensophic1693

interminateda1734

unhorizoned1811

unencompasseda1822

unterminated1853

1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) viii. f. 109^v The hungar of his brinklesse Maw the gulf that nawght might fill.

Derivatives

ˈbrinkmanship n. [-manship suffix] the art of advancing to the very brink of war but not engaging in it; also transferred and figurative; hence (as a back-formation), ˈbrinkman one who practises brinkmanship.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > war > war as profession or skill > [noun] > strategy > advancing to brink of war but not engaging

brinkmanship1956

the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > [noun] > risk > action of taking risks > art of

brinkmanship1956

the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > [noun] > risk > action of taking risks > one who

adventurerc1485

ventureling1562

bonaventure1598

boneventor1643

risker1678

gambler1838

brinkman1956

1956 N.Y. Times 26 Feb. 1/5 He [sc. Adlai Stevenson] derided the Secretary [sc. J. F. Dulles] for ‘boasting of his brinkmanship—the art of bringing us to the edge of the nuclear abyss’.

1958 Ann. Reg. 1957 183 Anglo-French ‘brinkmanship’ over Suez had failed to stop at the brink.

1958 S. Potter Supermanship 127 Brinkmanship is a clever way of describing the Dulles attitude.

1958 S. Potter Supermanship 127 Krushchev is the true Brinkman: his existence depending..on enemy-at-the-gatemanship.

1958 Times 11 Nov. Jackson Pollock..was..one to whom every new painting was..almost an act of spiritual brinkmanship.

1967 Spectator 18 Aug. 177/3 A policy of muddling through, of economic brinkmanship.

ˈbrinkmanlike adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > [adjective] > full of risk > risk-taking

hazardous1560

outstretching1654

brinkmanlike1958

radical1964

1958 Economist 27 Dec. 1134/1 He [sc. Potter] is about to plunge, brinkmanlike, into International Lifemanship.

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

单词	brink
释义	brinkn. Brit. /brɪŋk/, U.S. /brɪŋk/ Forms: Middle English brenk, Middle English–1500s brynke, Middle English–1500s brynke, Middle English–1600s brinke, 1500s brinck, Middle English– brink. Origin: Probably a borrowing from early Scandinavian. Etymology: Middle English brink (brenk ), not known in Old English; corresponding to Middle Dutch brinc (Dutch brink ), Middle Low German brink ‘edge of a field, grass-land, side of a hill, hill’ (whence modern German brink ‘green hill, grass-land’), Swedish brink ‘descent of a hill’, Danish brink ‘steepness, precipice, declivity’, all masculine, cognate with Old Norse brekka (feminine) ( < brinkâ ) ‘slope, hillside, hill’. The English word was probably < Scandinavian. In sense brink formerly ran parallel with brim n.² 1. The edge, margin, or border of a steep place, such as one might fall over, e.g. the ‘brink’ of a precipice, chasm, pit, ditch, grave. on the brink of the grave (figurative): near death. [This is the specific current sense, which now also affects the use of sense 2, and entirely colours the figurative use in sense 5; but it is doubtful whether the first two quotations do not rather belong to sense 2.] ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > [noun] > of something steep brinka1300 edgec1400 pit-brink1571 overgoing1634 the world > life > death > dead person or the dead > [adjective] > dying deadlyc893 swelting?a1400 dyingc1450 at (the) utterance1525 in (the, his) extremes1551 parting1562 Acherontic1597 ending1600 departing1603 on one's last legs1614 expiring1635 mortifying1649 morient1679 upon one's last stretch1680 gasping1681 à la mort1700 moribund1721 outward-bound1809 terminal1854 on the brink of the grave1872 defunctive1929 a1300 Ancr. R. 242 Þe horse þet is scheouh, and blencheð uor one scheadewe upo þe heie brugge, and falleð adun into þe watere of þe heie brugge [MS. Titus D. xviii. brinke]. c1386 G. Chaucer Merch. T. 157 I am hoor and old, And almost at [v.r. on] my pittes brinke. ?a1400 Chester Pl. 68 Your owine childe for to spill Upon this hilles brinke? c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) l. 384 Vche a dale so depe þat demmed at þe brynkez. c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Franklin's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 150 And caste hir eyen downward fro the Brynke [v.r. brinke, brenke]. 1594 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus ii. iii. 241 Of this deepe pit..I haue no strength to plucke thee to the brinck . View more context for this quotation 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ii. 918 The warie fiend Stood on the brink of Hell and look'd a while. View more context for this quotation 1709 G. Berkeley Ess. New Theory of Vision §148. 173 He shall come to the Brink of a Precipice. 1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. xxxix. 355 Upon the brink of the cleanly-separated fissures. 1872 J. Morley Voltaire iv. 198 Tottering on the brink of the grave. 1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) 170 The church..is now on the very brink of the cliff. 2. The edge of the land bordering a piece of water, as a river, lake, the sea: formerly = ‘bank, shore, brim’; now esp. when this rises abruptly from the water: thus running into sense 1. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > [noun] staithec893 cliffeOE overeOE wartha1000 strandc1000 brimc1275 brinka1300 rivagec1330 water bankc1384 cleevea1387 watersidea1387 clifta1398 rival?a1400 shorec1400 water breach1495 common shorea1568 verge1606 praia1682 riva1819 splash zone1933 a1300 K. Horn 141 Schup, bi þe se flode..Bi þe se brinke. a1300 Cursor Mundi 1766 Þe burnes ouer þe brink [Fairf. brenk] it brast. 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Gen. xli. 3 Thei weren fedde in the brenke of the flood [1611 vpon the brinke of the riuer]. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. Rolls Ser. 65 By þe see brynkes [L. juxta marium margines]. 1480 W. Caxton Descr. Brit. 17 A ryall cite vpon the brinke of twede. 1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 58/2 They sawe thegypcyens lyeng deed upon the brynkes of the see. 1553 R. Eden in tr. S. Münster Treat. Newe India Pref. sig. aavj Azion Gaber, by the brinke of the redde sea. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 97 Reeds defend the winding Waters Brink . View more context for this quotation 1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) II. 36 Their habitations on the brink, or in the neighborhood of some lake. 1849 G. Grote Hist. Greece VI. ii. lii. 469 On the brink of the sea. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. 630 They marched..to the brink of the Boyne. †3. a. The brim of a vessel; = brim n.² 4. Obsolete or dialect. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > [noun] > rim brink1382 berda1425 edgea1450 lip1592 beaded1917 bead rim1936 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) 2 Chron. iv. 2 He maad..a ȝoten se of tenn cubitis fro brynke vnto brynk. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 52 Brynke of a wesselle. a1500 Songs & Carols (1847) 56 Fyll the cope by the brynk. ?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. li Thou must spare at the brinke, & nat at the bottom. 1542 A. Borde Compend. Regyment Helth xii. sig. G.iii^v Fat dothe swymme aboue in the brynkes of the stomacke. 1598 M. Drayton Englands Heroicall Epist. (new ed.) f. 89 A bowle of Nectar fild vnto the brincke. 1709 J. Swift Baucis & Philemon 2 Fill'd a large Jugg up to the Brink. b. The brim of a hat. dialect. ΚΠ 1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel II. 68 With weather-beaten hat of rusty brown, Stranger to brinks, and often to a crown. †4. a. gen. A margin, border, edge. Obsolete or archaic. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > [noun] brerdc1000 hemc1200 barmc1340 cantc1375 margina1382 boardc1400 borderc1400 brinkc1420 edgea1450 verge1459 brim1525 rind1530 margent1538 abuttal1545 marge1551 skirt1566 lip1592 skirt1598 limb1704 phylactery1715 rim1745 rand1829 c1420 Pallad. on Husb. i. 813 In places wete or moist make evry brynke Two foote in heght. a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Exod. xxv. 24 Make to it a goldun brynke. c1432–50 tr. Higden (1865) I. 309 In the brynkes of the lesse Asia. 1508 Balade against Tymes Prudence and policy are banyst our al brinkis. a1535 T. More Wks. (1557) 81 The ytch of a sore leg, whan thou clawest about the brinkes. 1562 W. Bullein Dial. Sorenes f. 21^v, in Bulwarke of Defence The brinkes of the wounde, must be oiled with Rosed omphacine. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 490 His eares erected vpright, as the eares of a catte..the farthest brinkes or edges, and also his latter may be bended on the other side. 1724 T. Hearne Pref. R. Glouc. §25. 81 In one part of this MS. at the very bottom, just on the Brink of a Page. a1824 Ld. Byron Childe Harold i, in Wks. (1837) 14/2 All these are coop'd within one Quarto's brink. †b. figurative. archaic. ΚΠ 1659 J. Rushworth Hist. Coll. 688 Now we are but upon the brink and skirts of the Cause. 1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound ii. v. 90 On the brink of the night and the morning. 5. a. figurative. The very verge of some state, time, event, or action: now esp. in the phrases on, to, from the brink of, a discovery, ruin, destruction, death, eternity, anarchy, revolution, absurdity, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > similarity > [noun] > approximation > edge, verge, or brink brink?a1400 brim1549 ?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) (1996) ii. l. 2977 Scho dred þer assaute, hunger was at þe brynk. a1616 W. Shakespeare Timon of Athens (1623) v. ii. 41 You..Surprize me to the very brinke of teares. View more context for this quotation 1671 A. Marvell Let. 6 Apr. in Poems & Lett. (1971) II. 138 It is impossible we should rise before the very brinke of Easter. a1677 I. Barrow Wks. (1686) III. 191 Old men..visibly stand upon the brink of eternity. 1720 J. Swift Proposal Use Irish Manuf. 6 To save them from the brink of Ruin. 1722 D. Defoe Moll Flanders 335 I was at the very brink of Destruction. 1758 S. Johnson Idler 19 Aug. 153 [They] follow them to the brink of absurdity. 1818 M. W. Shelley Frankenstein I. iii. 90 Sometimes, on the very brink of certainty, I failed. 1876 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest V. xxiv. 367 As conqueror, he brought us to the brink of feudal anarchy; as despot, he saved us from passing the brink. 1884 Graphic 158/3 The secret..on the brink of discovery. b. with infinitive (obsolete) or gerund: On the very point of. (Now of something momentous or perilous.) ΚΠ 1702 T. Smith in Pepys' Diary VI. 240 Upon the brink to complete fourscore. 1720 J. Ozell et al. tr. R. A. de Vertot Hist. Revol. Rom. Republic I. iv. 228 You were upon the Brink of falling a Prey to our Enemies. 1788 Ld. Sheffield in Corr. Ld. Auckland II. 223 Trevor was on the brink of going to Petersburg. 1808 Salmagundi 25 Jan. xx. 424 I was on the very brink of treating you with a full broadside. 1865 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend I. ii. xvi. 319 She is on the brink of being sold into wretchedness for life. c. spec. the verge of war. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > war > [noun] > verge of war verge1772 brink1956 1840 J. S. Mill Let. 30 Dec. in Wks. (1963) XIII. 459 They had been brought to the brink of a war.] 1956 Life 16 Jan. 78 Says Dulles ‘..Of course we were brought to the verge of war... If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost... We walked to the brink and we looked it in the face.’ Compounds † brink-full n. Obsolete full to the brink, brimfull. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > presence > fact of taking up space > [adjective] > full > full to the brim brerd-fullc1000 bret-fullc1200 staff-fulla1400 chock-fullc1440 brimful1530 brink-full1553 top-full1553 brim-charged1582 bankfullc1600 crowned1603 full-brimmed1614 brimmed1624 teemful1673 brimming1697 stock-full1782 throat-fulla1800 jam-full1835 cram-full1837 stodge-full1847 chockc1850 top-filled1860 1553 tr. S. Gardiner De Vera Obediencia: Oration G vij With an emptie and free minde and not already brynke full. brinkless adj. without any brink or border. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > state or condition > infiniteness > [adjective] unbegunc1000 uncircumscriptc1374 endless138. finitea1400 measurelessc1400 infinite1413 ginningless?1440 immensec1450 unlimitedc1475 infinal?1504 interminate1533 termlessa1542 brinkless1567 without limit1572 uncompassed1577 limitlessa1586 beginningless1587 untermedc1595 boundless1599 illimitate1602 illimited1602 unbeginning1605 incomprehense1606 inconjectable1609 uncircumscribed1610 borderless1611 confinelessa1616 finelessa1616 unconfined1629 uninchoative1649 indefinite1664 incircumscript1677 imprincipiate1683 ensophic1693 interminateda1734 unhorizoned1811 unencompasseda1822 unterminated1853 1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) viii. f. 109^v The hungar of his brinklesse Maw the gulf that nawght might fill. Derivatives ˈbrinkmanship n. [-manship suffix] the art of advancing to the very brink of war but not engaging in it; also transferred and figurative; hence (as a back-formation), ˈbrinkman one who practises brinkmanship. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > war > war as profession or skill > [noun] > strategy > advancing to brink of war but not engaging brinkmanship1956 the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > [noun] > risk > action of taking risks > art of brinkmanship1956 the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > [noun] > risk > action of taking risks > one who adventurerc1485 ventureling1562 bonaventure1598 boneventor1643 risker1678 gambler1838 brinkman1956 1956 N.Y. Times 26 Feb. 1/5 He [sc. Adlai Stevenson] derided the Secretary [sc. J. F. Dulles] for ‘boasting of his brinkmanship—the art of bringing us to the edge of the nuclear abyss’. 1958 Ann. Reg. 1957 183 Anglo-French ‘brinkmanship’ over Suez had failed to stop at the brink. 1958 S. Potter Supermanship 127 Brinkmanship is a clever way of describing the Dulles attitude. 1958 S. Potter Supermanship 127 Krushchev is the true Brinkman: his existence depending..on enemy-at-the-gatemanship. 1958 Times 11 Nov. Jackson Pollock..was..one to whom every new painting was..almost an act of spiritual brinkmanship. 1967 Spectator 18 Aug. 177/3 A policy of muddling through, of economic brinkmanship. ˈbrinkmanlike adj. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > [adjective] > full of risk > risk-taking hazardous1560 outstretching1654 brinkmanlike1958 radical1964 1958 Economist 27 Dec. 1134/1 He [sc. Potter] is about to plunge, brinkmanlike, into International Lifemanship. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.a1300
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