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brosserie: brush factory
brossier: a person who makes or sells brushes, a brushmaker
brou: husk
brouet: soup, broth, brew; unsubstantial soup; something of bad quality
brouettage: wheelbarrowing (use of a wheelbarrow)
brouette: wheelbarrow; barrow (small vehicle used to carry a load and pulled or pushed by hand)
brouetter: to wheelbarrow (transport something in a wheelbarrow)
brouettée: wheelbarrowful
brouhaha: brouhaha
brouillable: confusable
brouillade: scrambled eggs
brouillage: jamming, interference
brouillamini: hubbub; uproar; hullabaloo
brouillard: fog, mist; daybook
brouillard de la guerre: fog of war
brouillasse: Light fog with drizzle
brouillasser: To drizzle
brouille: quarrel, tiff
brouillement: blur; blurring; confusion
brouiller: to blur; to mix up, confuse; to scramble (an egg); to set at odds, put (someone) off (something); to jam (a transmission), to scramble (a message)
brouiller les cartes: to muddy the waters, to cloud the issue, to confuse the issue
brouiller les pistes: to cover one's tracks; to muddy the waters; to cloud the issue, to confuse the issue
brouilleur: scrambler, jammer
brouillon: disorganised, disjointed
brouillon: draft (early version of a written work)
brouillonner: To jot down; to write in rough
broum: brrm; broom (imitating a motor)
broussaille: undergrowth, scrub; bushes
broussailleux: bushy, shaggy
broussard: bushman
brousse: bush, outback (wild area away from urban area); a kind of fresh cheese from Provence, made mainly from whey
brout: green shoot (of a plant)
broutage: grazing
broutard: a calf or lamb that accompanies its mother to grazing pastures
broutart: alternative spelling of broutard
broute-minou: cunnilingus, carpet munching, muff diving, pussy eating
broutement: grazing
brouter: to graze; to browse; to perform cunnilingus
brouteur: agent noun of brouter (“grazer, browser”); web browser; muff diver; Internet scammer, cybercriminal
broutille: trifle (inconsequential thing)
brouzouf: unit of currency; money
brownie: brownie (type of small chocolate cake)
brownien: Brownian
broyage: grinding, crushing, macerating
broyat: crushings (crushed material)
broyer: to crush, grind; to crush in a fight; to outpower
broyer du noir: to brood (to have negative thoughts)
broyeur: crusher, grinder (person who crushes, grinds); shredder, crusher, grinder (machine that tears up or crushes objects into smaller pieces)
broyeuse: synonym of broyeur (“shredder, crusher, grinder”)
brrr: brr; brrr
bru: daughter-in-law
bruant: Any of a large number of passerine birds, roughly equivalent to, but not restricted to, the buntings and sparrows
brucella: brucella
brucelles: tweezers
brucellose: brucellosis ("infection by a bacterium of the genus Brucella")
bruche: bruchid
brucine: brucine
brucknérien: Brucknerian
brugeois: of Bruges
brugnon: nectarine (clingstone)