Broil vs Brillig - What's the difference?
broil | brillig |
To cook by direct, radiant heat.
To expose to great heat.
To be exposed to great heat.
(archaic) A brawl; a rowdy disturbance.
* 1819 , , Otho the Great , Act I, verses 1-2
* Burke
* 1840 , Robert Chambers, ?William Chambers, Chambers's Edinburgh Journal (volume 8, page 382)
A nonce word in (Lewis Carroll)'s (Jabberwocky) , explained by Humpty Dumpty as "four o'clock in the afternoon — the time when you begin broiling things for dinner."
As nouns the difference between broil and brillig
is that broil is food prepared by broiling or broil can be (archaic) a brawl; a rowdy disturbance while brillig is a nonce word in (lewis carroll)'s (jabberwocky) , explained by humpty dumpty as "four o'clock in the afternoon — the time when you begin broiling things for dinner".As a verb broil
is to cook by direct, radiant heat or broil can be to cause a rowdy disturbance; embroil.broil
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) broillen, . (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- So, I am safe emerged from these broils ! / Amid the wreck of thousands I am whole
- I will own that there is a haughtiness and fierceness in human nature which will which will cause innumerable broils , place men in what situation you please.
- Since the provinces declared their independence, broils and squabblings of one sort and another have greatly retarded the advancement which they might otherwise have made.
Anagrams
*brillig
English
Alternative forms
* bryllygNoun
(-)- 'Twas brillig , and the slithy toves / Did gyre and gimble in the wabe'' — Lewis Carroll, ''Jabberwocky .