brisket
pronunciation
How to pronounce brisket in British English:
UK [ˈbrɪskɪt]
How to pronounce brisket in American English:
US [ˈbrɪskɪt]
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- Noun:
- a cut of meat from the breast or lower chest especially of beef
Word Origin
- brisket (n.)
- mid-14c., brusket, perhaps from Old French bruschet, with identical sense of the English word, or from Old Norse brjosk "gristle, cartilage" (related to brjost "breast") or Danish bryske or Middle High German brusche "lump, swelling;" from PIE *bhreus- "to swell, sprout" (see breast (n.)).
Example
- 1. At the retail level , that means that the brisket on the passover table costs 17 percent more this year than it did last .
- 2. Those who insist on the celtic origin of brisket have a hard time making their case .
- 3. But at the same time they phone in their lunch orders for cantonese roast pork and beef brisket noodles .
- 4. The ruby seeds were so pretty that the year after , when I didn 't make a brisket , I piled them on top of thick greek yogurt .
- 5. I visit my grandparents , they 're eating big brisket sandwiches .