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

“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

But a new-made wife, fu’ o’ rippish freaks, Fond o’ a things feat for the five first weeks, Laid a mouldy pair o her ain man’s breeks By the brose o’ Aiken-drum.

From Spare Hours by Brown, John

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

“I’se seek nae guids, gear, bond, nor mark; I use nae beddin’, shoon, nor sark; But a cogfu’ o’ brose ’tween the licht an’ the dark Is the wage o’ Aiken-drum.”

From Spare Hours by Brown, John