brill
noun
a European flatfish, Scophthalmus rhombus, closely related to the turbot.
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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of brill
First recorded in 1475–85; of uncertain origin
Example Sentences
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Sure, the mackerel paté was mesmerising, the pickled oyster piquant and the brill terrine as dazzling as its name suggests.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 25, 2019
“I like it. I think it’s brill: all the parades and the pomp and ceremony. And I think the Queen’s amazing.”
From The Guardian ● May 8, 2018
Here, the meat inside is juicy from a wallow in sa-cha sauce, with its briny payload of dried shrimp and ground brill.
From New York Times ● Jan. 25, 2018
I was glad to learn that TS Eliot is "brill".
From The Guardian ● Mar. 30, 2013
“It's so futuristic. Gary Numan's got a friend named 'Five'! Is that brill or what?”
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
Steffensen, a professor of marine biology at the University of Copenhagen, worked with Peter G. Bushnell, who teaches at Indiana University South Bend, and Richard W. Brill of the Virginia Institute of Marine Science.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 2026
“Every time you get one out of the way, you are still looking over your shoulder to see if something else is to come,” said Matt Brill, Invesco’s head of North America investment-grade credit.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 24, 2026
Unlike his Brill Building peer Carole King — he wrote “Oh! Carol,” his first big hit, about her — Sedaka wasn’t able to refashion himself as a hip singer-songwriter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2026
NewsGuard’s founders are the decidedly liberal Steven Brill of American Lawyer magazine and the conservative former Wall Street Journal publisher and columnist L. Gordon Crovitz.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026
For the first time I noticed it wasn’t Brill, it was the second-string quarterback.
From "Crash" by Jerry Spinelli
Once through the gap, experienced men gather the logs, as they are floated downward by the current, into brills.
From Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes by William Henry Carman Folsom
Dories, smelts, pike, perch, holibets, brills, carp, salmon trout, barbel, gudgeons, tench, shellfish.—Vegetables.
From The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families by Mary Eaton
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