bree

¹ British  

/ briː /

noun

1. broth, stock, or juice

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bree ² British  

/ briː /

noun

1. a Scot word for brunt

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Etymology

Origin of bree¹

Old English brīg , variant of brīw pottage; related to Old High German brīo soup, Old English brīwan to cook, Middle Irish brēo flame

Origin of bree²

C19: perhaps from earlier bree brow

Example Sentences

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bree

Or bawd bree, the rich hare broth of Scotland?

From Time Magazine Archive

"I read it in your bree," she said.

From David Balfour, Second Part Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey Into Holland And France; And Singular Relations With James More Drummond Or Macgregor, A Son Of The Notorious Rob Roy, And His Daughter Catriona by Stevenson, Robert Louis

O up then started our gudeman,   An angry man was he; "Will ye kiss my wife before my een,   And scaud me wi' pudding bree?"

From Ballad Book by Bates, Katherine Lee

His hair a' lang about his bree, His tap-lip lang by inches three - A slockened sort 'mon,' to pree A' sensuality - A droutly glint was in his e'e An' personality.

From New Poems by Stevenson, Robert Louis

Janet has kilted her green kirtle A little aboon her knee, And she has broded her yellow hair A little aboon her bree, And she’s awa’ to Carterhaugh, As fast as she can hie.

From Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Second Series by Sidgwick, Frank