braw

«braw» in Mova's school dictionary: fine, good, lovely or handsome, as in a braw day — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

adjective (braw, brawer, brawest) — Scots, dialect

meaning for a pupil

(Scots) Braw means fine, good, lovely or handsome, as in a braw day. tree →

sense in the lessons

Braw is a Scottish word heard in Scotland and in Scottish stories and songs. Scottish people may say It's a braw day for sunny weather or That's braw for great. In lessons on dialects it shows that English is spoken in many ways.

examples

• It's a braw day for a walk up the hill. (Scots) tree →
• That's a braw jumper you've got on. (Scots) tree →
• We had a braw time at the ceilidh. (Scots) tree →
• Gran says the view is braw. (Scots) tree →
• A braw lad and a bonny lass walked by. (Scots) tree →

note

Braw is dialect from Scotland and northern England; in standard English say fine, lovely or great. It sounds like the start of brawl without the l. Do not confuse with bra or bro.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «braw» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.