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Brough

name
/ˈbɹʌf//bɹʌf/

Etymology

A metathetic form of burgh (“mound, settlement”) employed in a special sense; thus a doublet of it, borough, Brough, burr (“halo, brough”), burrow, and Bury. For the semantic development, compare German Hof (“brough, halo, nimb”).

  1. inherited from burh

Definitions

  1. A placename

    A placename:

  2. A habitational surname from Old English.

  3. A halo or luminous disk or ring seen around the sun or moon, and in folklore considered…

    A halo or luminous disk or ring seen around the sun or moon, and in folklore considered to portend a rainstorm.

    • […] about the moon , called a brough, stormy weather is looked for within twenty-four hours; hence it is said, "a far off brough and a near hand storm." If small floating white clouds appear, which are called cat hair, rain is[…]
    • The corona or brough occurs when the sun or moon is seen through a thin cirro-stratus cloud, the portion of the cloud more immediately around the sun or moon appearing much lighter than the rest.
    • The County Antrim farmers say that bad weather may be expected whenever the new moon appears "on her back, with the new moon in her arms, and a brough round her," meaning by this the appearance[…]

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA