bruh
See also: brüh
English
Etymology 1
| PIE word |
|---|
| *bʰréh₂tēr |
A shortening of brother from African-American Vernacular English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bɹʌ/
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -ʌ
Noun
bruh (plural bruhs)
- (slang) Alternative form of bro (“male comrade or friend”).
- 2024, Eminem, “Houdini”, in The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce):
- Abra-abracadabra / (And for my last trick) I'm 'bout to reach in my bag, bruh / Abra-abracadabra / (And for my last trick, poof) Just like that and I'm back, bruh
Derived terms
Interjection
bruh
- (slang) Expressing amazement or shock.
- You're moving to Greenland? Bruh!
- (slang) Expressing a feeling that something is an exceptionally stupid or inappropriate thing to think or to do.
- Person 1: I poured canola oil into my car engine!
- Person 2: Bruh.
- Person 1: I think the word partisan derives from how they parted their hair.
- Person 2: Bruh.
- (slang) Expressing disappointment.
- Person 1: Your favorite show got cancelled!
- Person 2: Bruh.
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Descendants
- → Vietnamese: bủh (eye dialect)
Etymology 2
Noun
bruh (plural bruhs)
- (obsolete) The rhesus macaque.
- 1838, James Rennie, The Natural History of Monkeys, Opossums and Lemurs:
- […] in adolescence, and still more in youth, it is no less certain that the bruh is both good-natured and intelligent.
Anagrams
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *břuxъ (“belly”).
Noun
brȕh m inan (Cyrillic spelling бру̏х)