brewis

/bɹuːɪs/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 1.56 in modern English

Syllables: brewis
IPA: /bɹuːɪs/

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Meaning

noun

a kind of broth thickened with bread or meal

Countable; Obsolete; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"[…] 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."

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).

Usage

Inflected Forms

brewises (plural)

Phrases

fish and brewis

Homonyms

browis

Rhymes With

louis lewis lewes

Questions

How do you pronounce brewis?

The recorded pronunciation is /bɹuːɪs/.

What does brewis mean?

a kind of broth thickened with bread or meal

Where does brewis come from?

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