FromFrenchbrayer, fromOld Frenchbroier(“to tar, pitch”), fromOld Norsebræða(“to melt, make oil, tar, pitch”), frombráð(“tar, pitch”). Related toEnglishbrew.

• IPA^(key): [breˈaɾ]

brear (first-person singular presentbreo,first-person singular preteritebreei,past participlebreado)
brear (first-person singular presentbreio,first-person singular preteritebreei,past participlebreado,reintegrationist norm)

1. (transitive) totar
2. (transitive) tobeat up

• brea

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “brear”, inDicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “brear”, inDicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña:Royal Galician Academy,2012–2025
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández,Ernesto Xosé González Seoane,María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “brear”, inTesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “brear”, inTesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega,→ISSN

brear m

1. indefiniteplural ofbre

Borrowed fromFrenchbrayer, fromOld Frenchbroier(“to tar, pitch”), fromOld Norsebræða(“to melt, make oil, tar, pitch”), frombráð(“tar, pitch”). Related tobrew.

• IPA^(key): /bɾeˈaɾ/[bɾeˈaɾ]
• Rhymes:-aɾ
• Syllabification:bre‧ar

brear (first-person singular presentbreo,first-person singular preteritebreé,past participlebreado)

1. (obsolete, rare) to dip intar (seeembrear)
2. (by extension) toabuse, tomistreat, tomock

• “brear”, inDiccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8,Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish:Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
• Joan Coromines,José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “brea”, inDiccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume I (A–Ca), Madrid: Gredos,→ISBN, page657

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