Meaning

1 senses
  1. (Scotland, poetic)Of the sea, wind, etc.: fierce; raging; stormy, tempestuous.

Origin

From Middle English brem, breme, from Old English brēme (“famous, glorious, noble”), from

From Middle English brem, breme, from Old English brēme (“famous, glorious, noble”), from Proto-West Germanic *brōmi, from Proto-Germanic *brōmiz (“famous”). Cognate with Latin fremō (“to murmur; to roar”), Ancient Greek βρέμω (brémō, “to roar”), Polish brzmieć (“to be heard”).

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