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brimmers

brimmers is the plural of brimmer.

Meaning of brimmer

Noun

brimmer (plural brimmers)

  1. A cup brimming over with liquid.
    • No wonder, then, that they made a straight wake for the whale's mouth--the bar--when the wrinkled little old Jonah, there officiating, soon poured them out brimmers all round.1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
  2. (dialectal) A hat with a brim, especially a straw hat.
    • Bown has concocted exotic costumes out of a dash of this and that; her straw brimmers and other decorative hats have attracted positive notice from amused music critics.1996, Leslie Gourse, Madame Jazz: Contemporary Women Instrumentalists, page 16

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Proper noun capitalized: Brimmers

Brimmers

  1. (plural) plural of Brimmer

Questions about brimmers

What is brimmers the plural of?
Brimmers is the plural of brimmer.
What part of speech is brimmers?
Brimmers is a proper noun.

Words near brimmers in the dictionary

  1. Brimleys
  2. Brimm
  3. brimmed
  4. brimmed over
  5. brimmer
  6. brimmers
  7. brimmeth
  8. brimming
  9. brimming over
  10. brimmingly
  11. Brimms

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