Associations to the word «Bruin»

Wiktionary

BRUIN, noun. A folk name for a bear, especially the brown bear, Ursus arctos.

Dictionary definition

BRUIN, noun. A conventional name for a bear used in tales following usage in the old epic `Reynard the Fox'.
BRUIN, noun. Large ferocious bear of Eurasia.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope