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brewis

noun
/bɹuːɪs/

Etymology

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).

  1. derived from broth)
  2. derived from *brodum✻
  3. derived from brouet ‘gruel’)
  4. derived from broez

Definitions

  1. a kind of broth thickened with bread or meal

    • […] an hundred dishes of poultry besides other birds and brewises, fritters and cooling marinades.
    • […] 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.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA