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BIRSLE Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of BIRSLE is broil, toast, dry. How to use birsle in a sentence.
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BIRSLE definition in American English - Collins Dictionary
2 senses: 1. (of food) the roasted surface 2. to roast or scorch.... Click for more definitions.
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birsle, n. meanings, etymology and more | Oxford English Dictionary
The earliest known use of the noun birsle is in the 1800s. It is also recorded as a verb from the early 1500s. birsle is formed within English ...
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birsle
▪ I. birsle, v. Sc. (ˈbəs(ə)l, Sc. ˈbɪrs(ə)l) Also 6 brissle, brissil, byrsle, 7 north. dial. brusle. [Derivation and etymological form uncertain: the mod.Sc. is birsle, but 16th c. Eng. had brissill, and 17th c. north. dial. brusle.] trans. To scorch (the surface) with radiant heat; to toast hard; ...
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BIRSLE v to scorch, to toast - Scots Language Centre
On the subject of food, a birsle can refer to the part of a boiled tattie which has become brown and hard, from contact with the side of the pot: “The bairns ...
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Birsle. | Scottish Words Illustrated
To broil, to scorch. ′bʌrsəl The Scottish Word: birsle with its definition and its meaning illustrated and captioned with the word used in context.
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SND :: birsle v1 n - Dictionaries of the Scots Language
BIRSLE, BIRSEL, BIRSTLE, v.1 and n. Also birssle, brizzle, birsen. [′bɪ̢̈rs(ə)l, ′bʌrs(ə)l]. 1. v. To broil on the fire; to scorch: to warm thoroughly, ...
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birsle - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
(transitive) To scorch; to toast.
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Birsle - definition of birsle by The Free Dictionary
birsle. (ˈbɜːsəl; ˈbirsəl). n. (of food) the roasted surface. vb (tr). to roast or scorch.
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birsle, v. meanings, etymology and more | Oxford English Dictionary
The earliest known use of the verb birsle is in the early 1500s. OED's earliest evidence for birsle is from 1513, in a translation by Gavin Douglas, ...
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Say it in Scots: Birsle - The Times
It may refer to the effects of the sun, as the poet Robert Fergusson wrote in 1773 in his collection of Scots poems: “Now whan the Dog-day heats begin To ...
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brusle
▪ I. † ˈbrusle, v. Obs. rare—1. [Origin uncertain: cf. brustle.] trans. ? To crack; to bruise a little.1624 Fletcher Wife for Month ii. vi. Two broken citizens. Break 'em more; they are but brusled yet!▪ II. brusle obs. and north. f. birsle, bristle.
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bristle
▪ I. bristle, n. (ˈbrɪs(ə)l) Forms: 3–5 brustel, 4 brestel, brostle, 4–5 bru-, bristil, brestle, 5 bru-, brystyl(le, burstyll, 6 brisle, bristel(l, 6–7 brissel, brissle, 6– bristle. [ME. brustel, brostle, corresp. to MDu. borstel (burstel), Du. borstel masc., LG. börssel fem.: a deriv. of the simple...
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