bredda

bredda (plural breddas or bredren)

1. (Jamaica, colloquial) brother
   • 2011 September 24, “90-Year-Old Needs Help To Finish House”, in The Gleaner‎^[1]:

     "mi need the room dat im in, but mi can't throw him outside because is mi bredda"

• Bedard, badder, barded

• breda, broda

• IPA^(key): /ˈbrɛda/

bredda (plural bredda dem, quantified bredda)

1. brother

   Mi a look fi mi bredda. ― I'm trying to find my brother.

   • 1989, Stewart Brown, Mervyn Morris, Gordon Rohlehr, Voiceprint: An Anthology of Oral and Related Poetry from the Caribbean (in Jamaican Creole), →ISBN:

     “Oonoo call me bredda fi me! Beg yuh tell him come yah quick […] ”

     Go get my brother! Please tell him to come here quickly […]

2. (figurative) guy

   It start gather up a big crowd and it happen that it just a develop till mi go buy a likkle amplifier from a bredda downtown.

   More and more people started coming and it became so popular that I decided to buy an amplifier from a guy in Kingston.

   • 2006, Eric Jerome Dickey, Chasing Destiny (in Jamaican Creole), →ISBN:

     “Something wrong wid him. Da bredda dey need to [sic] good lick […] ”

     There's something off about him. Someone ought to slap that guy around a few times. […]

• bredda at JamaicanPatwah.com
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• bredden

bredda m or f

1. definite feminine singular of bredd

bredda f

1. definite singular of bredd

bred +‎ -a

bredda (present breddar, preterite breddade, supine breddat, imperative bredda)

1. to widen (make wider)

   bredda en öppning

   widen an opening

2. to broaden (increase in extent or comprehensiveness)

   bredda sin kunskap

   broaden one's knowledge

• breddning

• bred
• bredd

• bredda in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• bredda in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• bredda in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)