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brackett

brackett is the alternative form of bragget.

Meaning of bragget

Noun

bragget (uncountable)

  1. (historical) A liquor made of fermented ale and honey with spices.
    • You have in draughts of Darby drill'd your men,
      And we have serv'd there, armed all in ale,
      With the brown bowl, and charg'd in bragget stale […]1621 August 13 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), Ben Jonson, “The Masque of the Gypsies”, in Q. Horatius Flaccus: His Art of Poetry. […], London: […] J[ohn] Okes, for John Benson […]...
    Synonyms:
    Welsh ale

Proper noun capitalized: Brackett

Brackett (countable and uncountable, plural Bracketts)

  1. A surname from Anglo-Norman.
  2. An unincorporated community in the town of Washington, Eau Claire County, Wisconsin, United States.

Forms of brackett

pluralBracketts

Words formed from brackett

Phrases with brackett

Questions about brackett

What does brackett mean?
Brackett means a surname from Anglo-Norman.
What is brackett the alternative form of?
Brackett is the alternative form of bragget.
What part of speech is brackett?
Brackett is a proper noun.

Words near brackett in the dictionary

  1. bracketologist
  2. bracketologists
  3. bracketology
  4. bracketry
  5. brackets
  6. brackett
  7. Brackett series
  8. Bracketts
  9. Brackettville
  10. bracketwise
  11. brackety

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Adapted from Wiktionary: brackett (page history and authors); Brackett (page history and authors); bragget (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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