Noun: broach
| Singular | broach |
| Plural | broaches |
Sample Sentences
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Mr. S. had a large straw hat, and striped jacket and trousers, and his shirt fastened at the throat by a broach with Carry's hair, for he was always quite above wearing a neckcloth. [1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VI, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 123:]
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She pinned a broach on her jacket.
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When Viv saw it, she laughed. “Is that the best you can do? A flower broach?” [2012, Cara C. Putman, A Promise Born:]
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He turned a broach that had worn a crown. [1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret, →OCLC:]
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It [the straw] is laid on to a considerable thickness and firmly secured by ropes or twisted straw, and pinned down by sharpened sticks called 'broaches' [1840, “Cottages - Thatching”, in The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge:]
Nouns inflected like broach
penniless-bench,
wintergrass,
kitchen pass,
grey fox,
grey box,
trailer hitch,
paleness,
loaded march,
Tush Push,
horribleness,
slaughteress,
chapparvovirus,
greenwax,
royal flush,
crab cactus,
geostress,
syngas,
wintercress,
ichthys,
ichthus, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Celtic *brokkos
3. Gaulish *brokkosbor.?
4. Latin broccus
5. Vulgar Latin brocca
6. Old French brochebor.
7. Middle English broche
8. English broach
9. From Middle English broche, from Old French broche, from Vulgar Latin *brocca, originally a feminine form of Latin broccus, perhaps ultimately of Gaulish origin (see Scottish Gaelic bròg). Doublet of brochure. See: Middle English Nouns '
broche', Latin Nouns '
broccus'.
Verbs referencing "broach"
Swedish Nouns
brotsch, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
brotsj.