Dictionaries › English

brawn

Pronunciation: /bɹɔːn/

The English word “brawn” has 6 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. Strong muscles or lean flesh, especially of the arm, leg or thumb.
  2. Physical strength; muscularity.
  3. Head cheese; a terrine made from the head of a pig or calf; originally boar's meat.
  4. A boar.

verb

  1. Make fat, especially of a boar.
  2. Become fat, especially of a boar.

Etymology

From Middle English brawne, from Old French braon (“slice of meat, fleshy part, buttock”), from Frankish *brādon, *brādan, oblique forms of *brādō (“roasted meat, ham”), from Proto-Germanic *brēdô (“meat, roast”), of uncertain further origin, but possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreh₁- (“to burn, heat”). Akin to Old High German brāto (“tender meat”) (German Braten (“roast”)), Old English…

Keep exploring: in the interactive dictionary every word of a definition is a link. Open “brawn” there

More English words

About this dictionary

The English dictionary on Glottosphere has 650,529 entries with a page. Browse the English dictionary.

Definitions are from Wiktionary, extracted by Kaikki.org, and are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.