brig

• IPA^(key): /bɹɪɡ/

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• Rhymes: -ɪɡ

Abbreviated from brigantine, from Italian brigantino; in sense “jail”, from the use of such ships as prisons.

brig (plural brigs)

1. (nautical) A two-masted vessel, square-rigged on both foremast and mainmast
2. (US) A jail or guardhouse, especially in a naval military prison or jail on a ship, navy base, or (in fiction) spacecraft.

• brig rat

• hermaphrodite brig
• gun-brig

brig (third-person singular simple present brigs, present participle brigging, simple past and past participle brigged)

1. (US, military slang, dated) To merely pretend to be occupied, to lollygag.
2. (US, military slang, dated) To jail, to confine into the guardhouse.

• goldbrick

• Lighter, Jonathan (1972), “The Slang of the American Expeditionary Forces in Europe, 1917-1919: An Historical Glossary”, in American Speech‎, volume 47, issue 1/2, page 22

From Scots brig, from Old Norse bryggja, from Proto-Germanic *brugjǭ. Doublet of bridge.

brig (plural brigs)

1. (Scotland, Northern Ireland, Northern England) Bridge.
   • 1790, Robert Burns, Tam o' Shanter:

     Now do thy speedy utmost, Meg, / And win the key-stane of the brig;

• Brig o' Turk

Clipping of brigadier

brig (plural brigs)

1. Brigadier.

• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

• BIRG, RGBI

Inherited from Old English bryċġ.

brig

1. Alternative form of brigge

Borrowed from Old Norse bryggja. Doublet of brigge.

brig

1. bridge

• brigg, bryg, bregg

• Scots: brig, brigg, breeg
  • → English: brig, brigg

• IPA^(key): /bʲrʲiɣʲ/

brig

1. inflection of brí:
   1. accusative/dative singular
   2. nominative/vocative/accusative dual/plural

From Proto-Slavic *bergъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *bérgas, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰérǵʰos, from *bʰerǵʰ-.

• IPA^(key): /brik/

brig m

1. bank, shore (of a river)

• brigg, breeg

From Middle English brig, from Old Norse bryggja.

brig

1. bridge

   Stirling Brig ― Stirling Bridge

   • 1839, The Life of Mansie Wauch‎:

     “Dinna flatter me,” said James; […] replacing his glasses on the brig of his nose, he then read us a screed of metre […].

     “Don’t flatter me,” said James; […] replacing his glasses on the bridge of his nose, he then read us a screed of metre.

• → English: brig, brigg

• brȇg (Ekavian)
• brijȇg (Ijekavian)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *bergъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *bérgas, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰérǵʰos, from *bʰerǵʰ-.

brȋg m (Cyrillic spelling бри̑г)

1. hill, hillock (smaller hill)

• brižje

• IPA^(key): /briːɡ/
• Rhymes: -iːɡ

brig m (plural brigau)

1. crest, peak, summit, top