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Brio vs Brig - What's the difference?

brio | brig |

As nouns the difference between brio and brig

is that brio is vigour; mettle; zest; zeal while brig is force, power.

brio

English

Noun

  • Vigour or vivacity.
  • *1917 , Henry Handel Richardson, Australia Felix ,
  • *:He lay tossing restlessly on a dirty old straw palliasse, and was in great pain; but greeted his friend with a dash of the old brio .

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    brig

    English

    (wikipedia brig)

    Etymology 1

    Abbreviated from brigantine, from (etyl) brigantino; in sense “jail”, from the use of such ships as prisons.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (nautical) A two-masted vessel, square-rigged on both foremast and mainmast
  • (US) A jail or guardhouse, especially in a naval military prison or jail on a ship, navy base, or (in fiction) spacecraft.
    • See also
    * hermaphrodite brig * gun-brig

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Scotland) bridge
    • (Burns)

    Etymology 3

    Shortening of (brigadier)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Brigadier.

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