brewis
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Etymology edit
Old French broez, brouez, brouets plural of broet, brouet (French brouet ‘gruel’), from breu, from *brodittum, a diminutive of vulgar Latin *brodum, from Germanic *brod ‘sauce’ (English broth).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
brewis (countable and uncountable, plural brewises)
- (obsolete or dialectal) a kind of broth thickened with bread or meal
- 1885, Richard Francis Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, volume 5:
- […] an hundred dishes of poultry besides other birds and brewises, fritters and cooling marinades.
- 1964, Anthony Burgess, Nothing Like The Sun:
- […] he recounteth the horror of their deathless punishment in hellfire (as seen by him in his vision), a burning stinking brewis of venomed maggots and toothed worms that do gnaw to the very pia mater.