broth
[brawth, broth]
- thin soup of concentrated meat or fish stock.
- water that has been boiled with meat, fish, vegetables, or barley.
- Bacteriology. a liquid medium containing nutrients suitable for culturing microorganisms.
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- broth of a boy, a sturdy youth.
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Origin of broth
before 1000; Middle English, Old English; cognate with Old Norse broth, Old High German brod; akin to brew
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Contemporary Examples
Since I don't like mushrooms, the broth was immediately out of question for me.
But it was her light dinner—typically a broth with vegetables and either chicken or guinea fowl—that Wheeler saw as key.
Mix soy sauce, molasses, broth, salt, and sesame oil together, along with 1-2 tablespoons of the cooking liquid.
Refrigerator method: If you refrigerated overnight, de-fatting your broth is easy.
Pour into the stockpot, being careful to stop before the broth is all in and the fat starts to come out.
Historical Examples
I do but know that whether the broth be ready or no, I am about to dip this into it.
The White CompanyArthur Conan Doyle
Be careful to have some broth ready, for the other that I am to take soon.
The Imaginary InvalidMolire
Ye can jist make up your mind that Miss Linda is the broth of the earth.
Her Father's DaughterGene Stratton-Porter
Broth and coffee were sold at these places at a penny a cup.
The Three Cities Trilogy, CompleteEmile Zola
"Miss Perry's getting him some broth," Mrs. Adams returned, calmly.
Alice AdamsBooth Tarkington
broth
- a soup made by boiling meat, fish, vegetables, etc, in water
- another name for stock (def. 19)
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Word Origin
Old English broth; related to Old Norse broth, Old High German brod, German brodeln to boil; see brew
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Word Origin and History for broth
n.
Old English broþ, from Proto-Germanic *bruthan (cf. Old High German *brod), from verb root *bhreue- "to heat, boil, bubble; liquid in which something has been boiled" (cf. Old English breowan "to brew;" see brew (v.)). Picked up from Germanic by the Romanic and Celtic languages.
The Irishism broth of a boy, which is in Byron, was "thought to originate from the Irish Broth, passion -- Brotha passionate, spirited ..." [Farmer], and if so is not immediately related.
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Idioms and Phrases with broth
broth
see too many cooks spoil the broth.
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