brill

adj

1. Clipping of brilliant; wonderful, amusing; cool.

   “That song is totally brill, innit!”

   “So what makes a brill baguette? For Mr Paluel-Marmont and Mr de Rovira, a star French stick can usually be identified merely by its appearance.”

name

Etymology: * As an English surname, from Brill in Buckinghamshire, said to be from Proto-Brythonic *breɣ (“hill”) + Old English hyll (“hill”). * As a Dutch and north German surname, from Middle Low German brul (“low wetland”). Compare the variant Bruehl. * Also as a German surname, from the noun Brille (“eyeglasses”). * As a Jewish surname, from a Hebrew acronym of בן רבי (ben rabi, “son of rabbi”) followed by a Yiddish personal name, such as "Ben Rabbi Yehuda Levi".

1. A surname.
2. A village and civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England, previously in Aylesbury Vale district (OS grid ref SP6514).
3. A hamlet in Constantine parish, south-west Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SW7229).
4. A neighbourhood of Elberfeld, Wuppertal, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
5. An unincorporated community in the town of Oak Grove, Barron County, Wisconsin, United States.

noun

Etymology: Possibly from Cornish brilli (“mackerel”), from brithelli, plural of brithel (“mackerel”), from brith (“spotted”), from Proto-Brythonic *briθ.

1. A type of flatfish, Scophthalmus rhombus.