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bree¹

  • /bɹiː/

Sounds like Brie · Rhymes with -iː

Where it comes from

From Middle English brewe, bre, bregh, from Old English brēġ (“eyelid”) (Anglian dialect). Compare West Saxon brǣw, brēaw, brēaġ (“eyelid”), from Proto-Germanic *brēwō. Cognate with Dutch (wenk)brauw, German Braue. Compare brae from the same source. Apparently related to brow.

noun brees

  1. Scotland, dialectal, obsolete The eyelid.
  2. Scotland, dialectal, obsolete The eyebrow.
  3. Scotland The brow; forehead.

bree²

  • /bɹiː/

Sounds like Brie · Rhymes with -iː

Where it comes from

From Middle English bre, breie (“broth; gravy”), apparently from Old English brīw, brīġ (“pottage; porridge”), from Proto-West Germanic *brīw (“porridge; mash”), whence also German Brei, Dutch brij. Alternatively, the word could be a cognate of German Brühe (“broth”), from Middle High German brüeje, from the verb brüejen (“to scald, boil”), from Proto-Germanic *brōaną, whence modern German brühen, Dutch broeien, Middle Low German brȫjen. This is less likely, however, since the verb is not attested in English nor in Old Norse. Both paths eventually lead to the Proto-Indo-European root *bʰrewh₁- (“to boil, toss, cook, brew”), whence also English broth and brew.

noun brees

  1. Broth.

Bree³

Sounds like bree, Brie

Where it comes from

Shortened.

proper noun

  1. A diminutive of the female given names Breanna and Breyon. We both knew Cypress had been around the block a few times. He had been a serious manwhore and only got his shit together when he found Bree.

Bree⁴

Sounds like bree, Brie

Where it comes from

Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Breaghaigh. This surname is also borrowed from Dutch Bree.

proper noun Brees

  1. A surname.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: barley, brittany, neen, bristou, onde, birk, britain, strale, sneck, beeb, streal, birlie, britanny, burian, chaft, eild

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@misc{bree_2026,
  title = {bree},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/bree},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}