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アナグラム

• BIRG, RGBI

発音

• IPA: /bɹɪɡ/
• 韻: -ɪɡ
• ハイフネーション: brig

語源 1

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

名詞

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.

派生語

派生した語

参考

動詞

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

1. To merely pretend to be occupied, to lollygag.
2. To jail, to confine into the guardhouse.

参考

参照

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

語源 2

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

名詞

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;

派生語

語源 3

Clipping of brigadier.

名詞

brig (plural brigs)

1. Brigadier.

参照

• “brig” in Webster’s Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary: Based on Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, 7th edition, Springfield, Mass.: G[eorge] & C[harles] Merriam, 1963 (1967 printing), →OCLC.

アナグラム

• BIRG, RGBI

名詞

brīġ m

1. alternative form of brīw