brew
See also: Brew
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Middle English brewen, from Old English brēowan, from Proto-West Germanic *breuwan, from Proto-Germanic *brewwaną, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewh₁-. Doublet of burn.
Cognate with Dutch brouwen, German brauen, Swedish brygga, Norwegian Bokmål brygge; also Ancient Greek φρέαρ (phréar, “well”), Latin fervēre (“to be hot; to burn; to boil”), Old Irish bruth (“violent, boiling heat”), Sanskrit भुर्वन् (bhurván, “motion of water”). It may be related to English barley
Pronunciation edit
- enPR: bro͞o, IPA(key): /bɹuː/, /bɹuʊ̯/
Audio (US) (file) - (Standard Southern British) IPA(key): [bɹʉw][1]
- (Wales, Ottawa Valley, Southern American English) IPA(key): /bɹɪʊ̯/
- Rhymes: -uː
Verb edit
brew (third-person singular simple present brews, present participle brewing, simple past and past participle brewed)
- (transitive, intransitive) To make tea or coffee by mixing tea leaves or coffee beans with hot water.
- 1935, Christopher Isherwood, chapter 11, in Mr Norris Changes Trains, Penguin, published 1942, page 113:
- Elderly people sat indoors, in the damp. shabby houses, brewing malt coffee or weak tea and talking without animation […]
- (transitive) To heat wine, infusing it with spices; to mull.
- c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene v]:
- (transitive, intransitive) To make a hot soup by combining ingredients and boiling them in water.
- (transitive, intransitive) To make beer by steeping a starch source in water and fermenting the resulting sweet liquid with yeast.
- (transitive) To foment or prepare, as by brewing
- 1634 October 9 (first performance), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, →OCLC; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, →OCLC, page 106:
- Hence with thy brew’d inchantments, foul deceiver […]
- (intransitive) To attend to the business, or go through the processes, of brewing or making beer.
- c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv]:
- I wash, wring, brew, bake, scour, dress meat and drink […]
- (intransitive, of an unwelcome event) To be in a state of preparation; to be mixing, forming, or gathering.
- c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene v]:
- There is some ill a-brewing towards my rest,
- 2004 October 29, Marco R. Della Cava, “Vaccine shortage pricks tempers”, in Statesman Journal, volume 152, number 214, Salem, OR, page 2A:
- Of course, no one knows what kind of flu season is brewing, the perfect storm of a new strain hitting a largely unvaccinated population or a mercifully mild few months.
- (transitive, obsolete) To boil or seethe; to cook.
- 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 6:
- She had one day to get up very early in the morning to brew, when the other servants said to her: 'You had better mind you don't get up too early, and you mustn't put any fire under the copper before two o'clock.'
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
make tea or coffee
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make a hot soup
to make beer
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to contrive; plot
to go through the process of brewing beer
to be in a state of preparation
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Noun edit
brew (plural brews)
- The mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed; a brewage, such as tea or beer.
- 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 529:
- Six great bottles of one of the Hong Kong brews had been brought to wash down the brandy and the fragments of rice and mee and meat-fibres that clung to the back teeth.
- (slang) A serving of beer.
- Synonym: brewski
- (British, slang) A cup of tea.
- 2007 March 6, Julie Rutterford, Life on Mars, Season 2, Episode 3:
- Landlady: You're not stoppin' for a brew?
Gene Hunt: No thanks, love. Better crack on.
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
something brewed
beer — see beer
cup of tea — see cup of tea
Etymology 2 edit
Middle English brewe (“eyebrow”), from Old English bru (“eyebrow”). Doublet of brow
Noun edit
brew (plural brews)
Translations edit
hill — see hill
References edit
Anagrams edit
Middle English edit
Verb edit
brew
- Alternative form of brewen
Old Polish edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *bry, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *brū́ˀs, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃bʰrúHs.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
brew f
- eyebrow
- Middle of the 15th century, Rozmyślanie o żywocie Pana Jezusa[3], page 149:
- O brwiach Jezusowych. Brwi miał wielmi czarne a nadobne (de superciliis. Nigra supercilia)
- [O brwiach Jezusowych. Brwi miał wielmi czarne a nadobne (de superciliis. Nigra supercilia)]
Descendants edit
- Polish: brew
References edit
- B. Sieradzka-Baziur, editor (2011–2015), “brew”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN
Polish edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old Polish brew.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
brew f
Declension edit
Declension of brew
Derived terms edit
adjective