brad
pronunciation
How to pronounce brad in British English:
UK [bræd]
How to pronounce brad in American English:
US [bræd]
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- Noun:
- a small nail
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- Verb:
- fasten with brads
Word Origin
- brad (n.)
- "small wire nail," late 13c., brod, from Old Norse broddr "spike, point, arrow," from Proto-Germanic *brozda- (cognates: Old English brord "point, prick, blade of grass," Old High German brort "point, edge, crown"), from PIE *bhrs-dh-, from root *bhars- "projectile, point, bristle" (see bristle (n.)).
Example
- 1. Angie isn 't fighting with brad 's mom who loved jen .
- 2. Sharon sees her friend brad smoking outside .
- 3. Brad delong , economist at berkeley , has studied the long-term shift in utility of goods .
- 4. My first demon was to be brad white from dallas .
- 5. Brad hoffman did not say , what he was referring to forensic evidence , or whether he was the prosecution 's forensic evidence collected .