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noun, plural (especially collectively) britt, (especially referring to two or more kinds or species) britts.
- a turbot of northeastern Atlantic seas.
- brit.
noun
- the group of small marine animals forming the food of whalebone whales.
- the young of herring and sprat.
noun (functioning as singular or plural)
- the young of a herring, sprat, or similar fish
- minute marine crustaceans, esp copepods, forming food for many fishes and whales
noun
- informal a British person
abbreviation for
- Britain
- British
U.S. colloquial shortening of Britisher or Briton, 1901, formerly (in common with Britisher) highly offensive to Englishmen traveling in the States, who regarded it as yet another instance of the “odious vulgarism” of the Americans, but Bret and Bryt were common Old English words for the (Celtic) Britons and survived until c.1300. In Old French, Bret as an adjective meant “British, Breton; cunning, crafty; simple-minded, stupid.”