brimmer

American  

[brim-er] / ˈbrɪm ər /

noun

1. a cup, glass, or bowl full to the brim.

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brimmer British  

/ ˈbrɪmə /

noun

1. a vessel, such as a glass or bowl, filled to the brim

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Etymology

Origin of brimmer

First recorded in 1645–55; brim ¹ + -er ¹

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Example Sentences

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brimmer

Up with the sparkling brimmer,   Up to the crystal rim; Let not a moonbeam glimmer   'Twixt the flood and brim.

From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by William Michael Rossetti

Fill, fill the goblet--one and two: Let every brimmer, as it flows, In sportive chase, the last pursue.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 1 by Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle

Then, then, quaff it round, No deceit in a brimmer is found; Here's no swearing: Beer and ale makes you prate Of the Church and the State, Wanting other discourse worth the hearing.

From Cavalier Songs and Ballads of England from 1642 to 1684 by Charles Mackay

I iz open in fine, finer, finish; dine, dining, and diner; rime, riming, and rimer; fi-ner, fi-nish, and so on: shut in fin, finnish; din, dinner; brim, brimmer; fin-nish, and simmilar.

From A Minniature ov Inglish Orthoggraphy by James Elphinston

I pledge you in a brimmer; wishing Success may attend you, and Confusion await your Enemies!

From The Star-Chamber, Volume 1 An Historical Romance by William Harrison Ainsworth

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