English Explanatory Dictionary

broken reed

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Something or someone very fragile or unreliable.

Word forms

broken reed broken reeds

Etymology

From broken + reed (with reference to the quotation in 1611, see below).

Related words

slender reed
This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.
Back to search All on B Russian dictionary Dahl dictionary