The Collaborative International Dictionary
Brimming \Brim"ming\, a. Full to the brim; overflowing.
Brim \Brim\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Brimmed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Brimming.]
To be full to the brim. ``The brimming stream.''
--Milton.
To brim over (literally or figuratively), to be so full that some of the contents flows over the brim; as, a cup brimming over with wine; a man brimming over with fun.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"being full to the brim," 1660s, present participle adjective from brim (v.).
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of brim lang= en)
WordNet
See brim
Usage examples of "brimming".
They watched with amusement the elaborate precautions which Jan Cheroot took to get the last drop into his brimming mug.
Lilies were rocking on the sluggish reaches of the streams, and where the current quickened, tall wheels were lifting water for the fields in circles of brimming and spilling pockets.
My fondness for gossip and laughter, my brimming appetites, my tendency to sartorial chaos and my trick of farting at will made me one of the most popular men at Whitehall.
I imagine this Aquarius as an old, stooped man, his spine warped by the weight of a wooden yoke from which hang a pair of brimming pails.
For the first time in months, a portion of her burden lifted and the relief she felt revealed itself with tears, hot brimming tears that burned her eyelids and scalded paths down her cheeks.
Jimmy glanced over and was startled to see her eyes brimming with tears.
On a table before them stood a pair of beer-glasses, in the bottoms of which lurked scarce the foam of the generous liquor lately brimming them.
She turned on Alma eyes brimming with a shrewd mixture of fun and earnest, and Alma made note of the fact that she had an early nineteenth-century face, round, arch, a little coquettish, but extremely sensible and unspoiled-looking, such as used to be painted a good deal in miniature at that period.
Lilies were rocking on the sluggish reaches of the streams, and where the current quickened, tall wheels were lifting water for the fields in circles of brimming and spilling pockets.
The well-muscled frame of the tall, broad-shouldered, wide-browed young man, brimming with self-confidence and optimism, had no room for self-doubt.
Marguerita, Rosa's older sister, showed up encinta, three months pregnant, and the d'Montoya household was brimming with joy.
He was brimming with compliments for her, and she was secretly wishing he would monopolize her.
For six halcyon days Cugel sailed his skiff down the brimming river, stopping by night at one or another of the river-bank inns.
He enjoyed the sense that his body was so brimming with strength, and all his internal organs going like clockwork.