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borst

Pronunciation: /bɔrst/

“borst” is a Dutch word. Its 2 meanings in English:

noun

  1. chest, thorax
  2. breast

Etymology

From Middle Dutch borst, from Old Dutch brust, from Proto-West Germanic *brust, from Proto-Germanic *brusts, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrews- (“to swell, blow, inflate”).

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