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

Example Sentences

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brimmer

"Now thou speakest like a good fellow; and I will, with my own hands, unwire this fresh flask, to begin a brimmer to the success of thy achievement."

From Peveril of the Peak by Scott, Walter, Sir

You, Squire, had best go and mend your cracked head in the eating-parlour with a brimmer or two of clary wine; and you, Mrs. Dorothy, can go and keep her ladyship company.

From London Pride Or When the World Was Younger by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)

As Mr. Oldwit himself, in another scene of the same play, says to his friends, "We'll into my smoking-room and sport about a brimmer," there was probably some excuse for his wife's remark.

From The Social History of Smoking by Apperson, George Latimer

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 Elphinston, James

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 Rossetti, William Michael