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A bowl filled to the brim with guacamole.

noun

The definition of a brim is the edge at the very top of a dish, or a rim or edge on something.

An example of a brim is the top edge of a bowl.
An example of a brim is the part of a hat that shields your eyes.

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brim

the topmost edge of a cup, glass, bowl, etc.
Archaic
1. a rim or edge around a body of water
2. the water at such an edge
a projecting rim or edge of anything: the brim of a hat

Origin of brim

Middle English brimme, akin to Old Norse barmr, rim: for Indo-European base see broom

intransitive verb

brimmed, brim′ming

to be completely full, often with a resulting overflow: eyes brimming with tears

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brim

noun

The uppermost edge of a hollow container or natural basin.
A projecting rim or edge, especially around the bottom of a hat.
Full capacity: “No sooner had the fighting started than the hotel filled to the brim with a most extraordinary collection of people” ( George Orwell )

verb

brimmed, brim·ming, brims

verb

intransitive

To be full to the brim, often to overflowing: The cup is brimming with chowder.
To be abundantly filled or supplied: a monument brimming with tourists; workers brimming with pride.

verb

transitive

To fill to the brim.

Origin of brim

Middle English brimme

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Noun

(plural brims)

(obsolete) The sea; ocean; water; flood.

Origin

From Middle English, from Old English brim, brym, brymm (“surf, flood, wave, sea, ocean, water, sea-edge, shore”), from Old English *brimman, bremman (“to rage, roar”), from Proto-Germanic *bremmaną, *bremaną (“to roar”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerem-, *bʰrem(e)-, *breme- (“to hum, make a noise”). Cognate with Icelandic brim (“sea, surf”), Dutch brommen (“to hum, buzz”), German brummen (“to hum, drone”), Latin fremō (“roar, growl”, verb), Ancient Greek βρέμω (brémou, “roar, roar like the ocean”, verb).

Noun

(plural brims)

An edge or border (originally specifically of the sea or a body of water).
The topmost rim or lip of a container.
The toy box was filled to the brim with stuffed animals.
A projecting rim, especially of a hat.
He turned the back of his brim up stylishly.

Verb

(third-person singular simple present brims, present participle brimming, simple past and past participle brimmed)

To be full to overflowing.
The room brimmed with people.
To fill to the brim, upper edge, or top.

Origin

From Middle English brim, brem, brimme (“margin, edge of a river, lake, or sea”), probably from Middle English brim (“sea, ocean, surf, shore”). See above. Cognate with Dutch berm (“bank, riverbank”), Bavarian Bräm (“border, stripe”), German Bräme, Brame (“border, edge”), Danish bræmme (“border, edge, brim”), Swedish bräm (“border, edge”), Icelandic barmur (“edge, verge, brink”). Related to berm.

Verb

(third-person singular simple present brims, present participle brimming, simple past and past participle brimmed)

Of pigs: to be in heat, to rut.

Origin

Either from breme, or directly from Old English bremman (“to roar, rage”) (though not attested in Middle English).

Adjective

(comparative more brim, superlative most brim)

(obsolete) Fierce; sharp; cold.

Origin

See breme.

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