Definitions
tell or spread rumors
Word origin
Borrowed from French bruit (“noise; report, rumour”), from Old French bruit (“noise; sounds”); see further at etymology 1.
Used in a sentence
“Brother, we will proclaime you out of hand, / The bruit thereof will bring you many friends.”
“But yet I loue my Country, and am not / One that reioyces in the common wracke, / As common bruite doth put it.”
“Neither can they [vainglorious people] be Secret, and therefore not Effectuall; but according to the French Prouerbe; Beaucoup de Bruit, peu de Fruit: Much Bruit, little Fruit.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Spread as rumor”5 letters
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