brose
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of brose
1400–50; late Middle English broys < Old French broez; see brewis
Example Sentences
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“It’s brose; just let it sop While you’re hiking; it’ll mix and you can eat it when you stop.”
From Washington Post ● Jul. 21, 2022
He bought some and then later, as he choked down every drop, He learned a brose by any name is still a bag of slop!
From Washington Post ● Jul. 21, 2022
I can warrant that one lives simply while he takes the treatment; sometimes on a crust of bread and a bowl of brose, sometimes on water from the burn, never does one dine over-richly.”
From A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 by Travis, Stuart
"What's that?" said he, "for the bowl of brose that I had at supper-time wasna' very big."
From The Scottish Fairy Book by Grierson, Elizabeth Wilson
The noun brosier, as Mr. Wilbraham indicates, seems to be derived from the old word brose, or, as we now say, bruise.
From Notes and Queries, Number 33, June 15, 1850 by Various
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