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bro

Substantivhäufig in Dialogen

  • Vereinigtes Königreich//ˈbɹəʊ̯//
  • Vereinigtes Königreich/[ˈbɹʷəʊ̯]/
  • Vereinigtes Königreich//ˈbɹɵʊ̯//
  • Vereinigtes Königreich/[ˈbɹʷɵʊ̯]/
  • Australien//ˈbɹəʉ̯//

Brother (a male sibling).

Substantiv

  1. 1

    SlangBrother (a male sibling).

    My mom took my lil' bro to soccer practice now and she wanted me to pick him up.

  2. 2

    SlangBrother (a comrade or friend; one who shares one’s ideals).

    Bro, you good? You've been lookin' kinda out of it lately.

    Let’s not kid ourselves – there are plenty of men saying that Will has been emasculated by Jada, because hurr durr why would he hit a bro over a woman.

    Her breakout was the 2017 production “Nate” (available as a Netflix special) in which she played a toxic, handsy bro who drove a motorcycle onstage, guzzling beers, groping audience members and creating chaos.

  3. 3

    SlangBrother, my man, good sir; a friendly term of address for typically men.

    Near-synonym: man

    don't tase me, bro

    Hey bro, sorry to bother you but I think I accidentally backed up into your car — can I make it up to you?

    Bro said he finna go off today!

  4. 4

    SlangA frat boy or someone who espouses the fraternity bro culture.

  5. 5

    SlangSomeone, usually male, who aggressively evangelizes a person, concept or technology.

    Pfeiffer's partners at Pod Save America — the audio outpost of the resistance that had made a collection of Obama Bros niche superstars, had invested as producers in a documentary about the Senate run.

    One of these cars has 707 horsepower, performs amazingly well on a drag strip, and is popular among performance car bros. The other car is about to easily win a drag race.

    He'd seen that false equivalency coming from AI bros time and time again, but hearing it from an AI itself was especially irritating.

Herkunft

PIE word *bʰréh₂tēr Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰréh₂tēr Proto-Germanic *brōþēr Proto-West Germanic *brōþer Old English brōþor Middle English brother English brotherclip. English bro Spelling pronunciation and clipping of brother. (Contrast bruh, which is a clipping of the pronunciation of brother rather than the spelling.) Compare Swedish bror.

Formen

Plural
bros
Die NachbarseitenDie alphabetische Reihenfolge folgt den Regeln der Sprache, nicht den Bytewerten: Ein Akzent entscheidet nur zwischen zwei sonst gleichen Wörtern, und das Spanische führt Ñ als eigenen Buchstaben.

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