browful

noun

Etymology

From brow + -ful.

  1. inherited from *h₃bʰrúHs✻ — “brow”
  2. inherited from *brūwō✻
  3. inherited from *brāwu✻
  4. inherited from brū
  5. inherited from browe
  6. suffixed as browful — “brow + ful”

Definitions

  1. Enough to cover or fill the brow.

    • During these two decades I have lost most of my hair and gained a browful of wrinkles
    • But even Rodman's quip had no effect on Howard's browful of thought.
    • "Gosh, I coulda had six V8s!" he said, grinning to himself, as he wiped a browful of sweat on a rumpled sleeve.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for browful. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA