bramble
pronunciation
How to pronounce bramble in British English:
UK [ˈbræmbl]
How to pronounce bramble in American English:
US [ˈbræmbəl]
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- Noun:
- any of various rough thorny shrubs or vines
Word Origin
- bramble
- bramble: [OE] Bramble has several cognates in other Germanic languages, but as with many plant-names it does not always refer to the same plant. Old High German brāmma, for instance, is a ‘wild rose’; Old Saxon hiopbrāmio is a ‘hawthorn bush’; and then there is English broom. All come from a prehistoric Germanic *brāemoz ‘thorny bush’. In the case of bramble, Old English originally had brēmel, but the medial -b- had developed before the end of the Old English period. The bird-name brambling [16] is probably derived from it.=> broom
- bramble (n.)
- Old English bræmbel "rough, prickly shrub" (especially the blackberry bush), with euphonic -b-, from earlier bræmel, from Proto-Germanic *bræmaz (see broom).
Example
- 1. The indian boy took a sharp thorn from a bramble .
- 2. He crawled on his hands and knees into the bramble .
- 3. The indian boy led them through the woods to a bramble patch with red , ripe berries .
- 4. They scrambled through leafy tunnels , under arches of bramble branches .
- 5. All about us is noise and bramble , thorn and din , each one of our ancestors on our tongues .