brimmer

See also: Brimmer

English

Etymology

From brim +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbɹɪmə/

Noun

brimmer (plural brimmers)

1. A cup brimming over with liquid.
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick:

     No wonder, then, that they made a straight wake for the whale's mouth--the bar--when the wrinkled little old Jonah, there officiating, soon poured them out brimmers all round.

2. (dialect) A hat with a brim, especially a straw hat.
   • 1996, Leslie Gourse, Madame Jazz: Contemporary Women Instrumentalists, page 16:

     Bown has concocted exotic costumes out of a dash of this and that; her straw brimmers and other decorative hats have attracted positive notice from amused music critics.