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Brigue vs Brigge - What's the difference?

brigue | brigge |

As nouns the difference between brigue and brigge

is that brigue is intrigue, secretive machinations while brigge is obsolete form of lang=en.

As a verb brigue

is to achieve or obtain by underhand methods.

brigue

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) Intrigue, secretive machinations.
    • (Chesterfield)

    Verb

    (brigu)
  • (obsolete) To achieve or obtain by underhand methods.
  • * 1704': we think it very unbecoming our prudence that the determination should be remitted to the authors themselves; when our adversaries, by '''briguing and caballing, have caused so niversal a defection from us, that the greater part of our society has already deserted to them — Jonathan Swift, ''A Tale of a Tub (Penguin 2004, p. 11)
    • ----

    brigge

    English

    Noun

  • * c , 1375 , (Geoffrey Chaucer), (Canterbury Tales)[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=E4DXD7Sk7WcC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA78#v=onepage&q=brigge&f=false]
  • *:At Trumpyngtoun, nat fer fro Cantebrigge,
  • *:There gooth a brook, and over that a brigge
  • *::At Trumpington not far from Cambridge,
  • *::there goes a brook, and over that a bridge

    • (Webster 1913)