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homebrewed en · ADJ

Etymology

From home + brewed.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable, of a beverage) Brewed at home.
    • The girl made a wry little face. "I don't like beer, Mr. Landon," she said. "It's horrid stuff, even when it's homebrewed! 1914, Marie Corelli, Innocent: Her Fancy and His Fact, Library of Alexandria, →ISBN:
    • Two common questions are, "How long will a homebrewed beer keep?" and "Will it spoil?" The answer is that homebrewed beer has a fairly long storage life. 2001, John J. Palmer, How to Brew: Ingredients, Methods, Recipes, and Equipment for Brewing Beer at Home, →ISBN, page 136:
    • She felt dizzy and befuddled, almost like the time she had swiped a drink of her mother's homebrewed mead. 2015, Tamora Pierce, Wild Magic, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 39:
  2. (broadly, not-comparable) Homemade.
    • Bob concocts his own homebrewed version of the fuel by mixing old cooking oil, a small amount of gasoline, methanol from an antifreeze called Heet (found at the auto parts store), and a few gallons of Drano (which contains sodium hydroxide). 2014, Jay Bonansinga, Robert Kirkman, Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead: Descent, Macmillan, →ISBN:
    • Her tribal doctor also gave her some homebrewed powdered medicine, which he mixed in water. 2016, Dr. Richard Evans, My Summers in West Africa: The Account of a Medical Missionary, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN:
    • It is somewhat characteristic of this aircraft's designer that he found a homebrewed solution to the high cost of fabricating this curved boom section. 1985, Jim Richard Campbell, Flyer's guide to ultralights:

homebrewed en · NOUN

Etymology

From home + brewed.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) Drink brewed at home.
    • And they shook hands on it there and then, and Mr. Lang called for a girl to bring out some homebrewed from the cellar to make a bargain of it. 1936, Francis Rufus Bellamy, Fiction Parade and Golden Book Magazine - Volume 3, page 113:
    • They soon made friends again over a pipe and some homebrewed. 1888, G. Van Hare, Fifty Years of a Showman's Life, Or, The Life and Travels of Van Hare:
    • Because you actually came inside and sat down and are drinking homebrewed with a smile on your face. Because you brought your hound in with you and he's drinking homebrewed as well. 2003, Judith Lansdowne, Just in Time, →ISBN, page 131:

homebrewed en · VERB

Etymology

From home + brewed.

Meanings

  1. (form-of, participle, past) simple past and past participle of homebrew
    form of homebrew