brood
pronunciation
How to pronounce brood in British English:
UK [bruːd]
How to pronounce brood in American English:
US [bruːd]
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- Noun:
- the young of an animal cared for at one time
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- Verb:
- think moodily or anxiously about something
- hang over, as of something threatening, dark, or menacing
- be in a huff and display one's displeasure
- be in a huff; be silent or sullen
- sit on (eggs)
Word Origin
- brood
- brood: [OE] Like breed, brood came from a prehistoric Germanic base *brōd-, whose ultimate source was Indo-European *bhrē- ‘burn, heat’ (its other English descendants include braise, breath, and probably brawn). The underlying notion of brood is thus not so much ‘reproduction’ as ‘incubation, the warmth that promotes hatching’. The verbal sense ‘worry’ developed in the 18th century.=> braise, brawn, breath, breed
- brood (n.)
- Old English brod "brood, fetus, hatchling," from Proto-Germanic *brod (cognates: Middle Dutch broet, Old High German bruot, German Brut "brood"), literally "that which is hatched by heat," from *bro- "to warm, heat," from PIE *bhre- "burn, heat, incubate," from root *bhreue- "to boil, bubble, effervesce, burn" (see brew (v.)).
- brood (v.)
- "sit on eggs, hatch," mid-15c., from brood (n.). The figurative meaning ("to incubate in the mind") is first recorded 1570s, from notion of "nursing" one's anger, resentment, etc. Related: Brooded; brooding.
Example
- 1. Females brood their eggs in their mouths .
- 2. Parts of poultry-keep mac or poultry incub & brood .
- 3. She was left to herself to brood and wonder .
- 4. Mike dumas and team brood split .
- 5. They lay eggs in the nests of other birds , fooling the unwitting adopters into expending resources on brood that is not their own . Their eggs mimic those of the host .