bruh

From Malay beruk.

bruh (plural bruhs)

1. (archaic) The rhesus macaque.
   • 1838, James Rennie, The Natural History of Monkeys, Opossums and Lemurs:

     […] in adolescence, and still more in youth, it is no less certain that the bruh is both good-natured and intelligent.

A shortening of brother from African-American Vernacular English

• IPA^(key): /bɹʌ/

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• Rhymes: -ʌ

bruh (plural bruhs)

1. (slang) Alternative form of bro (“male comrade or friend”)

bruh

1. (slang) Expressing amazement or shock.

   You need to do work? Bruh!

2. (slang) Expressing a feeling that something is an exceptionally stupid thing to think or to propose to do.

   Person 1: I'll pour some corn syrup in my diesel tank. — Person 2: Bruh.

   Person 1: I think the word partisan derives from how they parted their hair. — Person 2: Bruh.

   Person 1: I just drank some oil! - Person 2: bruh

• bro, broh, brah, bra, bru

• dude

• bruh moment

• Buhr, burh

From Proto-Slavic *břuxъ (“belly”).

brȕh m

1. (regional, Croatia) hernia
2. (regional, Croatia) belly