Brisket Definition

brĭskĭt
noun
The breast of an animal.
Webster's New World
Meat cut from this part.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Brisket

Noun

Singular:
brisket
Plural:
briskets

Origin of Brisket

  • Middle English brusket, probably from Old Norse / Old Danish bryske ‘cartilage, gristle’ (modern brusk), from Proto-Germanic *breuskiz (compare German Brausche ‘knot on the head’), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreus- ‘to break’. More at bruise.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English brusket perhaps of Scandinavian origin Old Norse brjōsk cartilage

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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