brough
brough · broughs
A halo or luminous disk or ring seen around the sun or moon, and in folklore…A halo or luminous disk or ring seen around the sun or moon, and in folklore considered to portend a rainstorm.
/bɹʌf/
Meaning
1 sensesA halo or luminous disk or ring seen around the sun or moon, and in folklore considered to portend a rainstorm.
Origin
A metathetic form of burgh (“mound, settlement”) employed in a special sense; thus a doublA metathetic form of burgh (“mound, settlement”) employed in a special sense; thus a doublet of it, borough, Brough, burr (“halo, brough”), burrow, and Bury. For the semantic development, compare German Hof (“brough, halo, nimb”).
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