brewis

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Scrabble points: 11
Words With Friends: 12
Letters: 6

Pronunciation

/bɹuːɪs/

Definition of brewis

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

(countable, dialectal, obsolete, uncountable)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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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).

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2-letter words

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