brig

See also: bríg and Brig

English

a Brig-rigged vessel

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɹɪɡ/

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• Rhymes: -ɪɡ

Etymology 1

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

Noun

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.

Derived terms

• brig rat

Descendants

• → French: brick
  • → Romanian: bric
  • → Ottoman Turkish: بریق (brik)
    • Turkish: brik
• → Irish: bruig
• → Portuguese: brigue

Translations

two-masted vessel

• Catalan: bergantí m
• Czech: briga (cs) f
• Dutch: brigantijn m or f, brik (nl) m or f
• Finnish: priki (fi)
• French: brigantin (fr) m
• Galician: bregantín m
• German: Brigg (de) f
• Greek: μπρίκι (el) n (bríki), πάρων (el) m (páron)
• Irish: bruig f
• Italian: brigantino (it) m
• Maori: pereki
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: brigg m

  Nynorsk: brigg m

• Polish: bryg (pl) m
• Portuguese: brigue (pt) m, brigantim m
• Romanian: bric (ro) n
• Russian: бриг (ru) m (brig)
• Serbo-Croatian: brig (sh) m, brik (sh) m
• Spanish: bergantín (es) m
• Swedish: brigg (sv) c
• Turkish: brik (tr)

naval military jail or guardhouse

• Catalan: calabós m
• Dutch: cachot (nl) n, legergevangenis, militaire gevangenis, (naval) scheepsgevangenis, gevang (nl) n
• Finnish: putka (fi)
• French: cachot (fr) m
• Galician: calabós m, câbozo m
• German: Arrestzelle (de) f, Militärgefängnis (de) n
• Greek: (slang) μπαλαούρο (el) n (balaoúro)
• Russian: гауптва́хта (ru) f (gauptváxta), ка́рцер (ru) m (kárcer), тюрьма́ (ru) f (tjurʹmá)
• Spanish: calabozo m
• Swedish: arrest (sv) c

See also

• hermaphrodite brig
• gun-brig

Verb

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

1. (US, military slang, dated) To merely pretend to be occupied, to lollygag.
2. (US, military slang, dated) To jail, to confine into the guardhouse.

See also

• goldbrick

References

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

Etymology 2

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

Noun

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;

Derived terms

• Brig o' Turk

Etymology 3

Clipping of brigadier

Noun

brig (plural brigs)

1. Brigadier.

References

• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

Anagrams

• BIRG, RGBI

Middle English

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old English bryċġ.

Noun

brig

1. Alternative form of brigge

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Old Norse bryggja. Doublet of brigge.

Noun

brig

1. bridge

Alternative forms

• brigg, bryg, bregg

Descendants

• Scots: brig, brigg, breeg
  • → English: brig, brigg

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bʲrʲiɣʲ/

Noun

brig

1. inflection of brí:
   1. accusative/dative singular
   2. nominative/vocative/accusative dual/plural

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
brig	brig pronounced with /v(ʲ)-/	mbrig
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Polabian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *bergъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *bérgas, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰérǵʰos, from *bʰerǵʰ-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /brik/

Noun

brig m ?

1. bank, shore (of a river)

References

• Lehr-Spławiński, T., Polański, K. (1962) “brig”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka Drzewian połabskich [Etymological Dictionary of the Polabian Drevani Language] (in Polish), numbers 1 (A – ďüzd), Wrocław, Warszawa etc.: Ossolineum, page 52
• Polański, Kazimierz, James Allen Sehnert (1967) “brig”, in Polabian-English Dictionary, The Hague, Paris: Mouton & Co, page 41

Scots

Alternative forms

• brigg, breeg

Etymology

From Middle English brig, from Old Norse bryggja.

Noun

brig

1. bridge

   Stirling Brig ― Stirling Bridge

   • 1839, The Life of Mansie Wauch‎^[2]:

     “Dinna flatter me,” said James; […] replacing his glasses on the brig of his nose, he then read us a screed of metre […].

     “Don’t flatter me,” said James; […] replacing his glasses on the bridge of his nose, he then read us a screed of metre.

Descendants

• → English: brig, brigg

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• brȇg (Ekavian)
• brijȇg (Ijekavian)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *bergъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *bérgas, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰérǵʰos, from *bʰerǵʰ-.

Noun

brȋg m (Cyrillic spelling бри̑г)

1. hill, hillock (smaller hill)

Declension

Declension of brig

	singular	plural
nominative	brig	brigovi
genitive	briga	brigova
dative	brigu	brigovima
accusative	brig	brigove
vocative	briže	brigovi
locative	brigu	brigovima
instrumental	brigom	brigovima

Related terms

• brižje

Welsh

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “not in GPC”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /briːɡ/
• Rhymes: -iːɡ

Noun

brig pl (no singulative)

1. treetop, crown of a tree
2. crest, peak, summit, top
3. hair (on head)

   Synonym: gwallt

Derived terms

• ar frig y byd (“on top of the world”)
• briger (“tresses, locks”)
• brig Gwener (“maidenhair fern”)

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
brig	frig	mrig	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.