brewis en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /bɹuːɪs/
Etymology
Old French broez, brouez, brouets plural of broet, brouet (French brouet ‘gruel’), from breu, from *brodittum, a diminutive of vulgar Latin *brodum, from Germanic *brod ‘sauce’ (English broth).
Meanings
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(countable, dialectal, obsolete, uncountable) a kind of broth thickened with bread or meal
[…] an hundred dishes of poultry besides other birds and brewises, fritters and cooling marinades.
1885, Richard Francis Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, volume 5:[…] he recounteth the horror of their deathless punishment in hellfire (as seen by him in his vision), a burning stinking brewis of venomed maggots and toothed worms that do gnaw to the very pia mater.
1964, Anthony Burgess, Nothing Like The Sun:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| brewises | Number=Plur | lexicographic |