borrel

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbɒɹəl/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈbɔɹəl/, /ˈbɑɹəl/
• Rhymes: -ɒɹəl

Compare Old French burel (“reddish”) or French beurré (“butter pear”).

borrel (plural borrels)

1. A sort of pear with a smooth soft pulp; the red butter pear.

Probably from burel (“coarse woolen cloth”).

• burrel

borrel (comparative more borrel, superlative most borrel)

1. (obsolete) ignorant, unlearned; belonging to the laity, a mean fellow.
   • 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], OCLC 606515406; republished as The Shepheardes Calender […], London: […] Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, […], 1586, OCLC 837880809:

     Siker thou speak'st like a lewd sorrel,

     Of heaven, to deemen so:

     Howbe I am but rude and borrel,

     Yet nearer ways I know.

• Lorber

Diminutive of Middle Dutch borre, borne (“well, drinkwater”). Compare bron (“well”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɔ.rəl/

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• Hyphenation: bor‧rel

borrel m (plural borrels, diminutive borreltje n)

1. a shot of an alcoholic drink such as rum or gin; a tot
2. an informal, often impromptu reception or meetup, typically involving alcoholic drinks

• avondborrel
• borrelen
• borrelnoot
• vrijdagmiddagborrel