brear

From French brayer, from Old French broier (“to tar, pitch”), from Old Norse bræða (“to melt, make oil, tar, pitch”), from bráð (“tar, pitch”). Related to English brew.

• IPA^(key): [breˈaɾ]

brear (first-person singular present breo, first-person singular preterite breei, past participle breado)
brear (first-person singular present breio, first-person singular preterite breei, past participle breado, reintegrationist norm)

1. (transitive) to tar
2. (transitive) to beat up

• brea

• “brear” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “brear”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012
• “brear” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “brear” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

brear m

1. indefinite plural of bre

Borrowed from French brayer, from Old French broier (“to tar, pitch”), from Old Norse bræða (“to melt, make oil, tar, pitch”), from bráð (“tar, pitch”). Related to brew.

• IPA^(key): /bɾeˈaɾ/ [bɾeˈaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: bre‧ar

brear (first-person singular present breo, first-person singular preterite breé, past participle breado)

1. (obsolete, rare) to dip in tar (see embrear)
2. (by extension) to abuse, to mistreat, to mock

• “brear”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
• Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1984) “brea”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volumes I (A–Ca), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 657