Dictionary

bragget en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈbɹæɡɪt/

Etymology

From Middle English bragot, braket, from Middle Welsh bragawt, bragaut, bragot, from brag (“malt”).

Meanings

1. (historical, uncountable) A liquor made of fermented ale and honey with spices.
   • The foresitter of a cantref, namely the footholder, gives a vat of bragget to the king each year. 2011, Sara Elin Roberts, transl., “Text and Translation”, in Llawysgrif Pomffred: An Edition and Study of Peniarth MS 259B (Medieval Law and Its Practice; 10), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 121:
   • You have in draughts of Darby drill'd your men, And we have serv'd there, armed all in ale, With the brown bowl, and charg'd in bragget stale […] 1621 August 13 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), Ben Jonson, “The Masque of the Gypsies”, in Q. Horatius Flaccus: His Art of Poetry. […], London: […] J[ohn] Okes, for John Benson […], published 1640, →OCLC:

Forms

Relateds

mead

Synonyms

Welsh ale