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.
- broth of a boy, a sturdy youth.
Origin of broth
Related Words for broth
porridge, puree, chowder, bouillon, concoction, distillation, fluid, splash, elixir, brew, bowl, potpourri, stock, potage, gumbo, decoction, pottage, vichyssoise, borscht, dishwaterExamples from the Web for broth
Contemporary Examples of broth
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 of broth
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)
Word Origin for broth
Word Origin and History for broth
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.
Idioms and Phrases with broth
broth
see too many cooks spoil the broth.