brew
/bɹuː/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.64 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To make tea or coffee by mixing tea leaves or coffee beans with hot water.
Intransitive verb; Transitive verb
verb
To make a hot soup by combining ingredients and boiling them in water.
Intransitive verb; Transitive verb
verb
To make beer by steeping a starch source in water and fermenting the resulting sweet liquid with yeast.
Intransitive verb; Transitive verb
Example Sentences
- "Elderly people sat indoors, in the damp. shabby houses, brewing malt coffee or weak tea and talking without animation […]"
- "Go, brew me a pottle of sack finely."
- "Hence with thy brew’d inchantments, foul deceiver […]"
- "I wash, wring, brew, bake, scour, dress meat and drink […]"
- "There is some ill a-brewing towards my rest,"
- "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."
Etymology
From 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.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *bʰrewh₁-, brewen, brēowan, *breuwan, *brewwaną, brewe