breest

Scots

Etymology

From Old English brēost, from Proto-Germanic *breustą, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrews- (“to swell”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [brist]
  • (Mid Northern Scots) IPA(key): [briʃt]

Noun

breest (plural breests)

  1. (anatomy) breast
  2. perpendicular face cut in a moss
  3. step or layer in a manure heap
  4. the desk board of a pew
  5. the front or projecting part of anything
  6. the cobbled slipway forming the front of a harbour

Derived terms

  • abreest (“abreast, side by side”)
  • breestbane (“breastbone”)
  • breestie (“small breast”)

Verb

breest (third-person singular present breests, present participle breestin, past breestit, past participle breestit)

  1. to spring up or forward
  2. to mount a horse by gripping the mane and wriggling over

Derived terms

  • breestit (“sprang up with forward motion”)
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