What is the difference between bruv and brother?
bruv | brother | Derived terms |
(UK, slang) Brother, mate, friend.
* 1992 , in Today :
Son of the same parents as another person.
* , chapter=10
, title= A male having at least one parent in common with another (see half-brother, stepbrother).
A male fellow member of a religious community, church, trades union etc.
* The Bible, Deuteronomy 23:19 (NKJV)
(African American Vernacular English) A black male.
* 2013 , Gwyneth Bolton, Ready for Love
Someone who is a peer, whether male or female.
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To treat as a brother.
* 1819 , Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
* Seest thou not we are overreached, and that our proposed mode of communicating with our friends without has been disconcerted by this same motley gentleman thou art so fond to brother ?
Brother is a derived term of bruv.
As nouns the difference between bruv and brother
is that bruv is brother, mate, friend while brother is son of the same parents as another person.As a verb brother is
to treat as a brother.As an interjection brother is
Expressing exasperation.bruv
English
Noun
(en noun)- The lads in the Nags 'Ead were just talking about your bit of managerial bovver and I said to Rodney, '
Bruv , this could be my big chance.'
Usage notes
* Used mainly to address one's brother, when it is sometimes capitalised.See also
* (l)brother
English
Alternative forms
* brotha (Jamaican English)Noun
(en-noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=It was a joy to snatch some brief respite, and find himself in the rectory drawing–room. Listening here was as pleasant as talking; just to watch was pleasant. The young priests who lived here wore cassocks and birettas; their faces were fine and mild, yet really strong, like the rector's face; and in their intercourse with him and his wife they seemed to be brothers .}}
- You shall not charge interest to your brother —interest on money or'' food ''or anything that is lent out at interest.
- But damn if they knew when to just leave a brother alone and let him sulk in silence.
- And, above all, no animal must ever tyrannise over his own kind. Weak or strong, clever or simple, we are all brothers .