abrim

adj, adv — 2 senses

abrim

adj

/əˈbɹɪm/

Etymology From a- + brim.

1

Brimming, full to the brim.

  • the stand-place / Of carriages a-brim with Florence Beauties1860, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “The Dance”, in Poems before Congress,, London: Chapman and Hall, page 21:
  • Dyke and drain were everywhere abrim and here and there the water stood in the soaked fields as though they needed but little more to sink back into their ancient desolation of mere and fen.1934, Dorothy L. Sayers, The Nine Tailors, New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, page 263:
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  • […] we began taking turns stirring an enormous copper kettle abrim with New England clam chowder.2014, James K. Morrow, chapter 2, in The Madonna and the Starship, San Francisco: Tachyon, page 48:

abrim

adv

Etymology From a- + brim.

1

Brimming, full to the brim.

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