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English
Variant spelling of English unisex Briar, BRIER means "briar plant."
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English
English : habitational name from places called Brereton, in Cheshire and Staffordshire. The former is named with Old English brǣr, brēr ‘briar’ + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’; the latter originally had as its final element Old English dūn ‘hill’.
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Greek
Hundred-armed Titan in Greek mythology.
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English
English : habitational name from Brierton in County Durham (formerly in West Yorkshire) or Brearton in North Yorkshire, which are both named with Old English brēr ‘briar’ + tūn ‘farmstead’, or Brereton in Cheshire, which has the same origin (see Brereton).
Male
Irish
Said to be a corrupted form of Irish Gaelic Muircheartach, BRIARTACH means "skilled seaman."Â
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English
English : habitational name from any of the places called Brierl(e)y, in the West Midlands, West and South Yorkshire, and elsewhere, all of which are named with Old English brǣr ‘briar’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
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English (Yorkshire)
English (Yorkshire) : topographic name for someone who lived by a briar patch, Middle English brere. This was also applied as a nickname for a prickly, difficult person.Scottish and northern Irish : reduced form of McBriar (see McBrayer).Americanized form of German Breuer.
Male
English
English unisex name derived from the plant name briar, from Old English brer, BRIAR means "prickly bush."
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a.
Pertaining to, or resembling, Briareus, a giant fabled to have a hundred hands; hence, hundred-handed or many-handed.
n.
Fig.: Anything sharp or unpleasant to the feelings.
n.
A plant with a slender woody stem bearing stout prickles; especially, species of Rosa, Rubus, and Smilax.
n.
Alt. of Briar
n.
Same as Brier.