borrelとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

Compare Old French burel (“reddish”) or French beurré (“butter pear”).

名詞

borrel (plural borrels)

1. A sort of pear with a smooth soft pulp; a red butter pear.

語源 2

Probably from burel (“coarse woolen cloth”).

別の表記

• burrel

形容詞

borrel (comparative more borrel, superlative most borrel)

1. (obsolete) Ignorant, unlearned; belonging to the laity.
   • 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, […], →OCLC:

     Siker thou speak'st like a lewd sorrel,
     Of heaven, to deemen so:
     Howbe I am but rude and borrel,
     Yet nearer ways I know.

アナグラム

• Lorber