brek
See also: Bręk
English
Etymology 1
Shortening.
Verb
brek
- Eye dialect spelling of break.
- 1900, Paul Laurence Dunbar, The Strength of Gideon and Other Stories:
- At a very early age his shrill voice could be heard calling in admonitory tones, caught from his mother's very lips, "You 'Nelius, don' you let me ketch you th'owin' at ol' mis' guinea-hens no mo'; you hyeah me?" or "Hi'am, you come offen de top er dat shed 'fo' you fall an' brek yo' naik all to pieces."
West Frisian
Further reading
- “brek (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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