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bruh

/bɹʌ/

bruh is the alternative form of bro.

Interjection

  1. (slang) Expressing amazement or shock.
    • You're moving to Greenland? Bruh!
  2. (slang) Expressing a feeling that something is stupid, inappropriate, useless or even weird to say, think or do.
    • Person 1: I poured canola oil into my car engine!
      Person 2: Bruh.
    • Person 1: I think the word partisan derives from how they parted their hair.
      Person 2: Bruh.
  3. (slang) Expressing disappointment.
    • Person 1: Your favorite show got cancelled!
      Person 2: Bruh.
    • Person 1: I just ate your dinner.
      Person 2: Seriously, bruh.

Meaning of bro

Noun

bro (plural bros)

  1. (slang) Brother (a male sibling).
    • My mom took my lil' bro to soccer practice now and she wanted me to pick him up.
  2. (slang) Brother (a comrade or friend; one who shares one’s ideals).
    • Bro, you good? You've been lookin' kinda out of it lately.
  3. (slang) Brother, my man, good sir; a friendly term of address for typically men.
    • Near-synonym: man
    Synonyms:
    man
  4. (slang) A frat boy or someone who espouses the fraternity bro culture.
  5. (derogatory, in-compounds, slang, usually) Someone, usually male, who aggressively evangelizes a person, concept or technology.
    • Pfeiffer's partners at Pod Save America — the audio outpost of the resistance that had made a collection of Obama Bros niche superstars, had invested as producers in a documentary about the Senate run.2021 May 25, Edward-Isaac Dovere, Battle for the Soul: Inside the Democrats' Campaigns to Defeat Trump, Penguin, →ISBN, page 152

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Noun

bruh (plural bruhs)

  1. (obsolete) The rhesus macaque.
    • […] in adolescence, and still more in youth, it is no less certain that the bruh is both good-natured and intelligent.1838, James Rennie, The Natural History of Monkeys, Opossums and Lemurs

Synonyms of bruh

Forms of bruh

Noun
pluralbruhs
Interjection
alternative formbru
alternative formbreh
alternative formbryh

Origin of bruh

PIE word *bʰréh₂tēr Clipping of brother originating in African-American Vernacular English. Predates, but perhaps influenced, other slang clippings spelled with -h. This is a phonetic clipping: /ˈbɹʌðɚ/ → /bɹʌ/. Contrast bro, which is a clipping of the spelling of brother rather than the pronunciation.

Borrowed from Malay beruk.

Words formed from bruh

Phrases with bruh

Words that rhyme with bruh

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Questions about bruh

What does bruh mean?
Bruh means expressing amazement or shock.
What is bruh the alternative form of?
Bruh is the alternative form of bro.
What part of speech is bruh?
Bruh can be an interjection or a noun.
How do you pronounce bruh?
Bruh is pronounced /bɹʌ/.

Words near bruh in the dictionary

  1. Brugmans
  2. brugmansia
  3. brugmansias
  4. brugnatellite
  5. brugnatellites
  6. bruh
  7. bruh girl
  8. bruh girls
  9. bruh moment
  10. bruh moments
  11. bruhaha

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bruh (page history and authors); bro (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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