Brew
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brew¹
- /bɹuː/
- [bɹuʊ̯]
- /bɹɪʊ̯/
Rhymes with -uː
Where it comes from
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.
verb brews · brewing · brewed
- To make tea or coffee by mixing tea leaves or coffee beans with hot water. Elderly people sat indoors, in the damp. shabby houses, brewing malt coffee or weak tea and talking without animation […]
- To heat wine, infusing it with spices; to mull. Go, brew me a pottle of sack finely.
- To make a hot soup by combining ingredients and boiling them in water.
- To make beer by steeping a starch source in water and fermenting the resulting sweet liquid with yeast.
- To foment or prepare, as by brewing. Hence with thy brew’d inchantments, foul deceiver […]
- To attend to the business, or go through the processes, of brewing or making beer. I wash, wring, brew, bake, scour, dress meat and drink […]
- To be in a state of preparation; to be mixing, forming, or gathering. There is some ill a-brewing towards my rest,
- To boil or seethe; to cook. She had one day to get up very early in the morning to brew, when the other servants said to her: 'You had better mind you don't get up too early, and you mustn't put any fire under the copper before two o'clock.'
noun brews
- The mixture formed by brewing; that which is brewed; a brewage, such as tea or beer. Six great bottles of one of the Hong Kong brews had been brought to wash down the brandy and the fragments of rice and mee and meat-fibres that clung to the back teeth.
- A serving of beer. Player, give me some brew and I might just chill / But I'm the type that like to light another joint like Cypress Hill
- A cup of tea. Landlady: You're not stoppin' for a brew? Gene Hunt: No thanks, love. Better crack on.
- A boiled concoction or mixture of liquids and other ingredients. In the Middle Ages, when witchcraft and thaumaturgic practices were rampant over Europe, sorceresses did a roaring trade in magic brews designed to excite the passion or to preserve affection.
brew²
Where it comes from
From Middle English brewe (“eyebrow”), from Old English bru (“eyebrow”). Doublet of brow.
noun brews
- An overhanging hill or cliff.
Brew³
Where it comes from
* As an Irish surname, Anglicized from Ó Brugha (“descendant of the farmer”), from brughaire (“farmer”), from brugh (“land”) + -aire.
* As a Manx surname, Anglicized from MacVriw, from breitheamh (“deemster”); see Brain.
* As a German and Alemannic German surname, Americanized from Breu, Breuer.
proper noun Brews
- A surname.
