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English : Reaney identifies this surname as a variant of the habitational name Broomhead, from a locality in Hallamshire, now part of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, so named with Old English brÅm ‘broom’ or brÅmig ‘growing with broom’ + Old English hÄ“afod ‘headland’. In England the name is more commonly spelled Brummitt.
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English : habitational name, perhaps from Brimley in Devon or Brimbley in Stoke Abbott, Dorset, both named with Old English brÅm ‘broom’ + lÄ“ah ‘woodland clearing’.
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English : habitational name from Broomwell in Herefordshire named in Old English with brÅm ‘broom’ + wella ‘spring’, ‘stream’.
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English : variant spelling of Broom.
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Jewish (American)
Jewish (American) : Americanized form of an ornamental compound, Braunfeld, from German braun ‘brown’ + Feld ‘field’.English : variant of Broomfield.
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English : habitational name, possibly from Bramham in West Yorkshire or Brantham in Suffolk. The first is named with Old English brÅm ‘broom’ + hÄm ‘homestead’ or hamm ‘river meadow’; the second is from the Old English personal name Branta + hÄm or hamm.
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English : perhaps a variant of Bromwell or Broomhall.
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English : habitational name from Bream in Worcestershire, which is probably named in Old English as ‘the place where broom grows’, from brÄ“me, an unattested dialect variant of brÅm ‘broom’.English : nickname for a fierce or energetic person, from Middle English brem(e), brim(me) ‘fierce’, ‘vigorous’ (from Old English brÄ“me ‘famous’, ‘noble’).English : variant of Braham.
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English : habitational name from places called Branton in South Yorkshire (formerly in West Yorkshire) and Northumberland or from Braunton in Devon. The first and last are named with Old English brÅm ‘broom’ + tÅ«n ‘farmstead’, ‘settlement’. The second is from an Old English word brÄ“men ‘overgrown with broom’ + tÅ«n ‘farmstead’.
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English : variant of Bromage, a habitational name from Bromwich in the West Midlands, named in Old English with brÅm ‘broom’ (the shrub) + wÄ«c ‘outlying dairy farm’.
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English : habitational name from any of the places named with Old English brÅm ‘broom’, ‘gorse’ + feld ‘open country’, for example Broomfield in Essex, Kent, and Somerset, or Bromfield in Cumberland and Shropshire.
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English : probably a variant of Broomhall.
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English : variant spelling of Broomfield.
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English (Northumberland) : variant of Brace.North German (also Bräss) : nickname from Middle Low German brÄs ‘noise’, ‘pomp’, a related form of brÄsch (see Braasch).German : topographic name from Brass ‘broom’, ‘gorse’, a common name element in the Lower Rhine and Ruhr.
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English : of uncertain origin. It may be a nickname for someone thought to resemble a brush (Middle English brusche, from Old French brosse), or a metonymic occupational name for a brush maker. It could also be from a related word, brusche ‘cut wood’, ‘branches lopped off trees’ (Old French brousse), applied as a metonymic occupational name for a forester or woodcutter, or a topographic name for someone who lived in a scrubby area of country, from Old French broce ‘brushwood’, ‘scrub’, ‘thicket’ (Late Latin bruscia).Respelling of German Brusch or Brüsch, a topographic name from the field name Brüsch (Middle High German brüsch ‘heather’, ‘broom’ or ‘brush’).
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English : habitational name from any of the many places called Bromley, in Essex, Hertfordshire, Kent (now in Greater London), Greater London, Greater Manchester, Staffordshire, and elsewhere. Most are named with Old English brÅm ‘broom’ + lÄ“ah ‘woodland clearing’, but Bromley (near Bow) in Greater London is from Old English bræmbel ‘bramble’ + lÄ“ah.
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English : habitational name from any of various places called Broom(e) or Brome, from Old English brÅm ‘broom’, ‘gorse’. There are such places in Bedfordshire, County Durham, Norfolk, Shropshire, Suffolk, Worcestershire, and elsewhere.
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English : habitational name from Broomhead, now a district of Sheffield.
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English : variant spelling of Broomfield.
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English : habitational name from a place called Broomhall, most probably the one in Cheshire, which takes its name from Old English brÅm ‘broom’, ‘gorse’ + halh ‘nook’, ‘hollow’.
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An herb (Reseda luteola) related to mignonette, growing in Europe, and to some extent in America; dyer's broom; dyer's rocket; dyer's weed; wild woad. It is used by dyers to give a yellow color.
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A yellow gelatinous or crystalline substance found in broom (Cytisus scoparius) accompanying sparteine.
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Of or pertaining to broom; overgrowing with broom; resembling broom or a broom.
v. i.
To clean rooms, yards, etc., or to clear away dust, dirt, litter, etc., with a broom, brush, or the like.
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Formed of a wisp, or of wisp; as, a wispen broom.
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A small bunch of grass, straw, twigs, hair, or the like, used for a brush; hence, a brush or small besom, as of broom corn.
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A stick used as a handle of a broom.
v. t.
To scrub with a hog, or scrubbing broom.
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A broomstick.
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The part of a limb or other body remaining after a part is amputated or destroyed; a fixed or rooted remnant; a stub; as, the stump of a leg, a finger, a tooth, or a broom.
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Having the form of a broom or besom.
v. i.
To drive or carry along or off with a broom or a brush, or as if with a broom; to remove by, or as if by, brushing; as, to sweep dirt from a floor; the wind sweeps the snow from the hills; a freshet sweeps away a dam, timber, or rubbish; a pestilence sweeps off multitudes.
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An implement for sweeping floors, etc., commonly made of the panicles or tops of broom corn, bound together or attached to a long wooden handle; -- so called because originally made of the twigs of the broom.
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An implement, with teeth like those of a comb, for removing the seeds and seed vessels from flax, broom corn, etc.
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A plant having twigs suitable for making brooms to sweep with when bound together; esp., the Cytisus scoparius of Western Europe, which is a low shrub with long, straight, green, angular branches, minute leaves, and large yellow flowers.
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A whisk, or small broom.
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A narcotic alkaloid extracted from the tops of the common broom (Cytisus scoparius, formerly Spartium scoparium), as a colorless oily liquid of aniline-like odor and very bitter taste.
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Cleaning off surfaces, or cleaning away dust, dirt, or litter, as a broom does; moving with swiftness and force; carrying everything before it; including in its scope many persons or things; as, a sweeping flood; a sweeping majority; a sweeping accusation.
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To pass a broom across (a surface) so as to remove loose dirt, dust, etc.; to brush, or rub over, with a broom for the purpose of cleaning; as, to sweep a floor, the street, or a chimney. Used also figuratively.