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birse

/bɜː(ɹ)s/

birse noun: bristle.

Noun

birse (plural birses)

  1. (Scotland) bristle

Proper noun capitalized: Birse

Birse (countable and uncountable, plural Birses)

  1. A village and civil parish in Aberdeenshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NO5597).
  2. A habitational surname.

Forms of birse

Noun
pluralbirses
Proper noun
pluralBirses

Origin of birse

Borrowed from Scots birse (“bristle, hair”).

Words formed from birse

Phrases with birse

Questions about birse

What does birse mean?
Birse means bristle.
What part of speech is birse?
Birse can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce birse?
Birse is pronounced /bɜː(ɹ)s/.
What is the plural of birse?
The plural of birse is birses.

Words near birse in the dictionary

  1. Birrueta
  2. Birruetas
  3. birrus
  4. birruses
  5. Birs
  6. birse
  7. birses
  8. Birstall
  9. Birstwith
  10. birsy
  11. birt

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Adapted from Wiktionary: birse (page history and authors); Birse (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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