brose

American  

[brohz] / broʊz /

noun

Scot.

1. a porridge made by stirring boiling liquid into oatmeal or other meal.

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brose British  

/ brəʊz /

noun

1. oatmeal or pease porridge, sometimes with butter or fat added See also Atholl brose

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Other Word Forms

• brosy adjective

Etymology

Origin of brose

1400–50; late Middle English broys < Old French broez; see brewis

Example Sentences

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

“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 attended to his horses and to the kennel, singing all the time; then went quietly in to make his brose.

From Annie o' the Banks o' Dee by Stables, Gordon

I made cakes and porridge of fully the average excellence; and my brose and brochan enjoyed at least the negative happiness of escaping animadversion and comment.

From My Schools and Schoolmasters or The Story of my Education. by Miller, Hugh

After we had eaten our bannocks and brose we lay in the shine of the flame and revelled in the blessed heat, listening to the splash of the rain outside.

From A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 by Travis, Stuart