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brooch - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

English

Noun

brooch (plural brooches)

• A piece of ornamental jewellery having a pin allowing it to be fixed to garments worn on the upper body.
  • ✤ Synonym: breastpin
  • ✤ Hypernym: pin
• A painting all of one colour, such as a sepia painting.

Verb

brooch (third-person singular simple present brooches, present participle brooching, simple past and past participle brooched)

• (transitive) To adorn as with a brooch.
  • ✤ Not the imperious show/Of the full-fortuned Caesar ever shall/Be brooch’d with me.¹

Etymology

Variant of broach.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /bɹəʊtʃ/, (sometimes)/bɹuːt͡ʃ/
• Audio (Southern England): 🔊
• (US) enPR: brōch, IPA: /bɹoʊt͡ʃ/, /bɹut͡ʃ/²³⁴
• Rhymes: -əʊtʃ, -uːtʃ
• Homophone: broach

Printed 2026-06-28.

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Footnotes

1. c. 1606–1607, William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, act 4, scene 15, lines 23–25: ↩

2. “brooch”, in Merriam-Webster.com Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present. ↩

3. On Language; Broaching the Telltale Brooch, William Safire, New York Times ↩

4. The Grammarphobia Blog: On brooch, broach, and broccoli ↩

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