Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

browst

/ˈbɹaʊst/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: brow-st
IPA: /ˈbɹaʊst/

11

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A brewage; a brew, especially a serving of beer.

noun

An instance of brewing.

Example Sentences

"[…] meet alternately at each other's houses night after night, and sit simply soaking in the regularly recurring 'browsts,' till they were saturated and almost brimming over."
"But be being better instructed from that book which was Brownie's eyesore, and the object of his wrath, when he brewed, he would not suffer any sacrifice to be given to Brownie; whereupon, the first and second brewings were spilt and for no use, though the wort wrought well, yet in a little time it left off working and grew cold; but of the third browst or brewing, he had ale very good, though he would not give any sacrifice to Brownie, with whom afterwards they were no more troubled."

Etymology

Back-formation from browster.

Inflected Forms

browsts (plural)

Rhymes With

oust doused joust roust dowsed frowst

Questions

How do you pronounce browst?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈbɹaʊst/.
What does browst mean?: A brewage; a brew, especially a serving of beer.
Where does browst come from?: Back-formation from browster.

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