| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| PRONUNCIATION: |  br |
| VERB: | Inflected forms: brayed, bray·ing, brays
| | INTRANSITIVE VERB: | 1. To utter the loud, harsh cry of a donkey. 2. To sound loudly and harshly: The foghorn brayed all night. | | TRANSITIVE VERB: | To emit (an utterance or a sound) loudly and harshly. | | NOUN: | 1. The loud, harsh cry of a donkey. 2. A sound resembling that of a donkey: “an endless bray of pointless jocosity” (Louis Auchincloss). | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English braien, from Old French braire, from Vulgar Latin *bragere, of Celtic origin.
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