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adj
Clipping of brilliant; wonderful, amusing; cool.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, slang
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name
A surname.
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A village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England, previously in Aylesbury Vale district (OS grid ref SP6514).
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A hamlet in Constantine parish, south-west Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SW7229).
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name
A neighbourhood of Elberfeld, Wuppertal, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
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name
An unincorporated community in the town of Oak Grove, Barron County, Wisconsin, United States.
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noun
A type of flatfish, Scophthalmus rhombus.
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noun
European food fish
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: Scophthalmus rhombus
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Broader terms: lefteye flounder, lefteyed flounder
History
* As an English surname, from Brill in Buckinghamshire, said to be from Proto-Brythonic *breɣ (“hill”) + Old English hyll (“hill”). * As a Dutch and north German surname, from Middle Low German brul (“low wetland”). Compare the variant Bruehl. * Also as a German surname, from the noun Brille (“eyeglasses”). * As a Jewish surname, from a Hebrew acronym of בן רבי (ben rabi, “son of rabbi”) followed by a Yiddish personal name, such as "Ben Rabbi Yehuda Levi".
Possibly from Cornish brilli (“mackerel”), from brithelli, plural of brithel (“mackerel”), from brith (“spotted”), from Proto-Brythonic *briθ.
Across languages
24 source translations are retained for this English entry.
